The future Minister of the Civil House, Rui Costaconfirmed this Saturday (17) that the government of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will be 37 ministries🇧🇷
Altogether there are 14 ministries more than the current government of Jair Bolsonarowhich has 23 folders. Lula ended his second term in 2011 with 37 ministries🇧🇷
Despite the increase of ministriesCosta says that there will be no job creation.
“It was a request from the president, who was, by dismembering the ministries, there is no expansion of positions. That is, the cost and volume of expenses are maintained regardless of the amount of ministries”, he said after meeting with LulaGleisi Hoffmann and Aloizio Mercadante.
According to the current governor of Bahia, the ministers’ names will be announced over the next week.
Lula already confirmed the names of six ministers – Civil House, Culture, Defense, Finance, Justice and Foreign Affairs. However, it stopped the disclosures after the Transition PEC lock on Chamber of Deputies🇧🇷 The proposal must be voted on Tuesday (20).
See the division of ministries in the Lula government
To get to the number 37 ministriesthe new government intends to divide the Ministry of Economy into four folders: Finance, Planning, Industry and Management.
As well as the Ministry of Infrastructurewhich will be divided into two others, Transport (responsible for highways) and Ports (responsible for service stations and airports).
The Fishing, Cities, Transport, Ports and Sport folders will be recreated. While creating the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples.
The new structure will be formalized in a provisional measure on January 1st.
See who are the six ministers already confirmed by Lula
Civil House: Rui Costa
Confirmation date: 12/09/2022
Party: PT
Economist graduated from the Federal University of Bahia, Rui Costa is the current governor of Bahia – the most populous state and the largest economy in the Northeast, which he governed for two consecutive terms.
Before being elected governor, he held the secretariats of Civil House and Institutional Relations of the State. the indication of Lula for Pasta, it serves a more technical profile, since the new government has a greater focus on running public works.
See the minister’s profile.
Ministry of Culture: Margareth Menezes
Confirmation date: 12/13/2022
Party: No party affiliation
With a technical profile, the singer from Bahia was invited to be part of the transition team after criticizing the absence of black people responsible for evaluating the sector in the current management of Jair Bolsonaro🇧🇷
She is the founder of the Estrela do Mar Records label and the Fábrica Cultural Association; she won two Caymmi trophies, four Dodô and Osmar trophies and was also nominated for the Grammy Awards and the Latin Grammy.
Although she is not affiliated with political parties, she has already declared support for PT candidates, such as former president Dilma Rousseff and the graduated president Lula🇧🇷
See the minister’s profile.
Ministry of Defense: José Múcio
Confirmation date: 12/09/2022
Party: PTB
With a degree in Civil Engineering, Múcio was Minister of Institutional Relations between 2007 and 2009, as well as Minister of the Federal Audit Court (TCU) from 2009 to 2021.
In addition, in his home state of Pernambuco, he held the position of federal deputy for five terms and Secretary of Transport in the Roberto Magalhães government, as well as mayor of the municipality of Rio Formoso. He was also Secretary of Planning for Recife under Magalhães.
The new minister was part of the transition group of the government of Lulaalready focused on the Defense area, in order to fulfill the basic condition determined by the future president: to have a civilian at the head of the portfolio.
See the minister’s profile.
Ministry of Finance: Fernando Haddad
Confirmation date: 12/09/2022
Party: PT
Graduated in Law and with a master’s degree in Economics, he works as a politician, lawyer and university professor.
the choice of Lula for the Ministry of Finance was political: the portfolio, in addition to being one of the most coveted in the government, is also seen as a way of preparing Haddad as successor to Lula as a presidential candidate.
He was Minister of Education in 2005, in the first government Lula and responsible for the creation of Prouni. Between 2013 and 2016, he was mayor of the city of São Paulo.
In 2018, he was a presidential candidate, facing Bolsonaro in the second round. And this year, he ran for governor of the state of São Paulo, losing to Tarcisio de Freitasformer Minister of Infrastructure.
See the minister’s profile.
Minister of Justice: Flávio Dino
Confirmation date: 12/09/2022
Party: PSB
The future minister comes from a family of politicians: his father, Sálvio Dino, was councilor of São Luís (MA), state deputy and mayor of the municipality of João Lisboa (MA).
Flávio is a lawyer and has held positions such as federal judge, governor of Maranhão, president of Embratur, professor at the Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA) and senator of Maranhão.
He was already a member of the PT and participated in the Transition team, as one of the coordinators of the technical group that discusses Justice and Public Security. The minister is the best of both worlds: he has a technical profile and is still an ally of Lula🇧🇷
See the minister’s profile.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Mauro Vieira
Confirmation date: 12/09/2022
Party: No party affiliation
A graduate of the Brazilian diplomatic academy, the Rio Branco Institute, the future minister is a career professional at the Itamaraty with over 40 years in the field. He previously served as ambassador abroad from 1982 to 1999, in Montevideo, Mexico City and Paris.
Vieira also commanded Itamaraty between 2015 and 2016, during the second Dilma (PT) government. Currently, the future minister heads the Brazilian embassy in Zagreb, capital of Croatia.
Like Dino, Vieira has a technical profile and is seen as an ally of the new government.
See the minister’s profile.
Source: Moneytimes
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