After weeks of tough negotiations, the president-elect, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, unveiled his entire cabinet.
There will be 37 ministries, a record number to accommodate the allies that formed the broad front to defeat Bolsonaro, decisive for Lula to win the elections.
The hard core stayed with the Workers' Party (PT) or its orbit of left-wing parties, but there is also room for allies leaning towards the center right.
Women, far from the most important ministries, will be less than a third, and blacks, who are half of the Brazilian population, are even worse represented.
Even so, Lula recalled that his 11 female ministers represent the maximum female participation in the country's history.
Fernando Haddad (São Paulo, 59 years old).
Economy Minister
One of Lula's most trusted men, since the time he was Minister of Education in his first two terms.
In the 2018 elections, he was a candidate for the presidency when Lula was prevented from contesting the elections and his name is always among the favorites for succession.
He was mayor of São Paulo between 2013 and 2016 and in the last elections he tried for the position of state governor, but was defeated by a Bolsonaro candidate.
He promises to combine the increase in social investment with the control of the deficit.
Fernando Haddad, during a press conference in Brasilia, on December 19, 2022. Andre Borges (EFE)
Geraldo Alckmin (São Paulo, Pindamonhangaba, 70 years old).
Vice President and Minister of Industry and Commerce
The main symbol of the broad front that Lula built to win the elections.
Historical rival of the PT, Alckmin agreed to be number two in the Government and at first he was going to have only that more institutional role and as a bridge with the most conservative sectors of Congress and society.
In the end, Lula also gave him a ministry in the face of difficulties in finding a weighty businessman willing to fill the portfolio.
Geraldo Alckmin speaks during a press conference at the headquarters of Congress, in Brasilia, on November 3, 2022. Andressa Anholete (Bloomberg)
Marina Silva (Rio Branco, 64 years old).
Environment Minister
The veteran ecologist reoccupies this portfolio 20 years later.
In Lula's first years as president, she implemented the policies that managed to reduce deforestation in the Amazon, but she left the government due to development pressure from other ministries.
She spent years estranged from the PT, she founded her own party (Rede Sustentabilidade) and was a three-time presidential candidate.
She reconciled with Lula in her last campaign and lent her support in exchange for her taking up her environmental agenda.
Silva now says that Lula has changed and that she understood that environmental policy has to permeate the entire administration.
Marina Silva and Lula da SIlva, in Brasilia, on December 29, 2022. ADRIANO MACHADO (REUTERS)
Rui Costa (Salvador, 59 years old).
Minister of the Civil House
Like Lula, he began his political career in the union movement in the 1980s, and helped found the PT in Bahia.
He is an economist, he has governed his home state for eight years, and before that he was a councilor and representative.
His position, which is equivalent to a kind of chief of staff or prime minister, has as its main attribution the coordination of public policies with the other ministries.
Rui Costa, in a file image.Assessoria Governo da Bahia
Flávio Dino (São Luis, 54 years old).
Minister of Justice and Public Security
For eight years, he governed Maranhão, one of the poorest states in Brazil, and before that he was a congressman and federal judge.
His main challenge will be to undo the influence left by the Bolsonaro government, especially in high-ranking police officers.
During the weeks of transition, he announced that the new government will revoke Bolsonaro's decrees that facilitated the possession of weapons and hinted that there will be no permissiveness with the coup protests.
Flávio Dino, during his time as governor of Maranhão.Divulgação
José Múcio Monteiro (Recife, 74 years old).
Minister of Defense
Former magistrate of the Court of Accounts of the Union (TCU), Monteiro was minister of the Secretariat of Institutional Relations in Lula's second term and moves well in military environments.
He is expected to be key in overcoming Lula's difficulties with the leadership of the Armed Forces.
His appointment was praised even by the current vice president, General Hamilton Mourão.
José Múcio Monteiro, in a file image.Palácio do Planalto
Mauro Vieira (Rio de Janeiro, 71 years old).
Minister of Foreign Affairs
A career diplomat, he was already Foreign Minister with Dilma Rousseff between 2015 and 2016, and he went through important embassies, such as those in Buenos Aires and Washington, in addition to leading the representation of Brazil at the UN.
Since 2018, he has been ambassador to Croatia.
He will have to rebuild Brazil's relations with the world and recover the "haughty and active" foreign policy that Lula wants for the country.
Mauro Vieira, during a conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York, on October 9, 2017. Kevin Hagen (Getty Images)
Nísia Trindade (Rio de Janeiro, 64 years old).
Minister of Health
She will be the first woman in charge of the Ministry of Health and her appointment was highly applauded by the sector.
Until now, she led the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), the largest scientific health center in Brazil and Latin America, which played a fundamental role during the covid-19 pandemic, with the production of millions of vaccines.
Her main challenge will be to guarantee the financial viability of the public health system, strengthen primary care and recover child vaccination campaigns.
Nísia Trindade, in a file image. Embaixada dos EUA - Brazil
Wellington Dias (Oeiras, 60 years old).
Minister of Social Development
He is another historical cadre of the PT, to which he has been affiliated since 1985. He has governed the state of Piauí for 16 years, in four terms, and now he will assume a portfolio that is considered strategic.
He will control the distribution of social aid from programs such as the 'Bolsa Familia', which in the past contributed to ending hunger and brought millions of Brazilians out of misery.
Due to its impact among the poorest electorate, it was one of the most coveted ministries.
During the pandemic, Dias coordinated the National Forum of Governors, which acted as a counterweight to Bolsonaro's denialism and mobilized in search of vaccines.
Wellington Dias, during an interview in May 2020. Jorge Bastos (Jorge Bastos/Divulgação)
Camilo Santana (Crato, 55 years old).
Minister of Education
He is an agronomist, professor and a rising politician within the PT.
He ruled the state of Ceará for two terms, recognized even internationally for his good educational levels.
The favorite for the position was Izolda Cela, one of the main architects of that educational revolution in this region of the northeast of the country.
The PT pressured not to lose a ministry with great political potential and now Cela, who was lieutenant governor of Santana and has just been elected governor, will have to settle for number two again;
she will occupy the position of executive secretary of the ministry.
The two will have the immense task of recovering basic education and guaranteeing the operation of public universities, which in recent times have even
Camilo Santana at the Palacio da Abolição, in Fortaleza, on March 6, 2020.Henrique Kardozo
Margareth Menezes (Salvador, 61 years old).
Minister of Culture
The Ministry of Culture reappears after years of extinction and it does so by the hand of one of the queens of Brazilian music, especially axé, the rhythm at which the Bahia carnival is lived.
Menezes has twenty albums, four Grammy nominations and experience as a manager of cultural and social projects in her homeland.
With her appointment, Lula tries to give her government some freshness and she repeats the formula of an artist for this portfolio, as when she chose the also singer and Bahian Gilberto Gil in her first term.
Margareth Menezes, during a press conference in Brasilia, on December 13, 2022. EVARISTO SA (AFP)
Simone Tebet (Três Lagoas, 52 years old).
Planning Minister
This center-right senator was the great revelation of the last campaign.
She came in third place in the presidential race, and in the second round, she did not hesitate to support Lula despite her differences in order to stop Bolsonaro.
In recent days, the president juggled to award him a portfolio to reward his contribution to the electoral victory, but in the PT it was feared that a very lucid ministry would give him wings for 2026. Finally, he will be in charge of a minor ministry but that could show the internal differences of the Cabinet in the economic area.
Simone Tebet, during her campaign for the last presidential elections, in Rio de Janeiro, on September 22, 2022.Bruna Prado (AP)
Silvio Almeida (São Paulo, 47 years old).
Minister of Human Rights
Doctor of Law from the University of São Paulo (USP), philosopher and considered one of the greatest Brazilian intellectuals of his generation, Almeida has stood out for his work in the fight against racism.
He is the author of 'Structural Racism', one of the most influential books in recent years, and he presided over the Luiz Gama Institute, an organization in defense of the Afro-Brazilian population and minorities in general.
One of his first announcements has been the creation of a specific secretariat for the LGBTQIA + community.
Silvio Almeida, in Brasilia, on December 22, 2022. EVARISTO SA (AFP)
Sônia Guajajara (Arariboia Indigenous Land, 48 years old).
Minister of Indigenous Peoples
He is the main face of the indigenous movement in Brazil.
For years he chaired the country's main indigenous organization, denouncing Human Rights violations on indigenous lands from the UN to the European Parliament.
Four years ago she was a candidate for the vice presidency with a party to the left of the PT and in the last elections she won a seat as a deputy.
Time magazine placed her on this year's list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
The creation of this ministry, unprecedented to date, was one of Lula's first promises in the electoral campaign.
Indigenous leader Sonia Guajajara, during a meeting with Brazilian legislators on the defense of indigenous peoples, in Brasilia, on February 18, 2020. ADRIANO MACHADO (Reuters)
Anielle Franco (Rio de Janeiro, 38 years old).
Minister for Racial Equality
Journalist, professor and feminist and anti-racist activist, she became known nationally after the murder of her sister Marielle Franco in 2018, then a councilor for Rio de Janeiro.
The political attack (still not fully resolved) shocked the country, and after the murder, Anielle founded the Marielle Franco Institute, to preserve the memory of her sister and organize social projects focused mainly on black women and young people from favelas and peripheries.
In the 2020 municipal elections, for example, she launched a platform to support black candidates.
Anielle Franco holds a sign reading "Who killed Marielle Franco?" during an Amnesty International campaign.
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Cida Gonçalves (Clementine, 62 years old).
Women's Minister
A long-standing militant for women's rights, Gonçalves has extensive experience militating in social movements but also in politics, as she was the national secretary for the fight against gender violence in the governments of Lula and Dilma Rousseff.
In recent years, she has acted as a public policy consultant and given conferences and courses for town halls and regional governments.
Cida Gonçalves, in a file image.RR.SS.
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Luciana Santos (Recife, 38 years old).
Minister of Science and Technology
President of the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB) and lieutenant governor of the state of Pernambuco, Santos is an engineer and has been from deputy to mayor, as well as Secretary of Science and Technology in Pernambuco.
After being appointed by Lula, she affirmed that her main priority will be to increase the value of scholarships for scientific research, which have been frozen since 2013.
Luciana Santos, in Brasilia, on December 22, 2022. EVARISTO SA (AFP)
Luiz Marinho (Cosmorama, 64 years old).
Minister of Labor
He made a career in the ABC Metallurgical Union, the political cradle of Lula, and is the current president of the PT in São Paulo.
He already held the Labor portfolio in Lula's first governments and was also mayor of São Bernardo do Campo.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Luiz Marinho, during a press conference in Brasilia, on December 22. André Borges (EFE)
Márcio França (Santos, 60 years old).
Minister of Ports and Airports
More to the center than to the left, França has been mayor and governor of São Paulo, a position he wanted to run for again this year.
However, he gave in to pressure from the PT, which wanted to place Haddad as a candidate, and agreed to run for the Senate, but did not win a seat.
He has already said that non-approved privatizations will have to go through the government's sieve.
Márcio França, in a file image.Raoni Madalena
Márcio Macêdo (Esplanada, 53 years old).
Minister of the General Secretariat
A stranger to the general public, but a trusted man for Lula.
Trained in biology, he was a representative and treasurer in the last presidential campaign.
His portfolio serves as the main support in the day-to-day life of the president.
Lula da Silva and Márcio Macedo, during a press conference on the transition report, on December 22, 2022. André Borges (EFE)
Alexandre Padilha (São Paulo, 52 years old).
Minister of Institutional Relations
He already held this same position in the last years of Lula's second term.
He will be in charge of dialogue with the National Congress, a central mission to guarantee Lula governability in an environment more leaning to the right.
Padilha, who is an infectologist, became more famous when he was Minister of Health with Dilma Rousseff and implemented the 'More Doctors' program, which 'imported' thousands of Cuban doctors to provide assistance to the poorest and most isolated regions of the country.
Alexandre Padilha, in Brasilia, on December 22, 2022. EVARISTO SA (AFP)
Esther Dweck (Rio de Janeiro, 46 years old).
Minister of Management
She is a professor at the Institute of Economics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and was federal budget secretary with the government of Dilma Rousseff.
She will have to deal, for example, with the demands for better salaries from civil servants and with Brazil's debts with international organizations.
Lula da Silva and Esther Dweck, in Brasilia, on December 22, 2022. André Borges (EFE)
Vinicius Marques (45 years old).
Minister of the Comptroller General of the Union
The CGU is an internal government control body that conducts audits and seeks to combat corruption and facilitate transparency.
Marques, graduated and PhD in Law from the University of São Paulo (USP), was president of the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) and secretary of Economic Law in Dilma Rousseff's Ministry of Justice.
In the center, Vinícius Marques de Carvalho, during the press conference on the final report of the transition.UESLEI MARCELINO (REUTERS)
Jorge Messias (43 years old).
Minister of the Attorney General of the Union
He is currently a National Treasury Attorney, he is a career civil servant and during the government of Dilma Rousseff he was deputy chief for Legal Affairs of the Presidency, among other technical positions.
He will be in charge of representing the Brazilian State before the judiciary.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Jorge Messias, on December 22, 2022, in Brasilia.
Andre Borges (EFE)
Marco Edson Gonçalves Dias.
Chief Minister of the Institutional Security Cabinet
The GSI is the body that coordinates the government's intelligence area, and is also in charge of the president's personal security.
Gonçalves Dias, a reserve general, already worked in similar positions in the previous governments of Lula and Dilma Rousseff.
Marco Edson Gonçalves Dias, in a file image. Government of Brazil
Paulo Pimenta (Santa Maria, 57 years old).
Minister of the Secretariat of Communication
He is a journalist and agricultural technician, and was elected deputy in five consecutive terms, being one of the strongest names in the PT in the south of the country.
His portfolio is in charge of the government's relationship with the press and advertising contracts in the media.
Paulo Pimenta, during a debate in Congress, in April 2016.UESLEI MARCELINO
Carlos Fávaro (Bela Vista do Paraíso, 53 years old).
Minister of Agriculture
Starting next year, the former Ministry of Agriculture will be divided into four, but Fávarto will maintain the most important competencies related to the powerful agricultural and livestock sector, one of the pillars of the Brazilian economy.
Fávaro was president of the association of soybean and corn producers of the state of Mato Grosso, one of the breadbaskets of the country, for which he was elected senator.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Carlos Favaro, in Brasilia, on December 29, 2022. Andre Borges (EFE)
Waldez Góes (Gurupá, 61 years old).
Minister of Integration and National Development
Governor of the state of Amapá, Goés is an agricultural technician and trained in Public Policy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).
Lula da Silva and Waldez Góes, during a press conference in Brasilia. Andre Borges (EFE)
André de Paula (Recife, 61 years old).
Fisheries Minister
The Fisheries portfolio reappears and will be occupied by this deputy, who was previously Secretary of Rural Production and Agrarian Reform in the state of Pernambuco.
In 2016, he voted for Rousseff's impeachment.
Andre de Paula, during the press conference on the transition. EVARISTO SA (AFP)
Carlos Lupi (Campinas, 65 years old).
Minister of Pensions
Lupi was Minister of Labor in the governments of Lula and Rousseff.
In the last elections, his party had Ciro Gomes as its candidate, who despite being a natural ally of Lula refused to explicitly support him in the second round.
Lupi's pleas were useless, who now sees his fidelity to the future president rewarded.
Carlos Lupi, in Brasilia, on December 29, 2022. EVARISTO SA (AFP)
Jader Barbalho Filho.
Minister of Cities
Businessman, son of a senator and brother of the governor of the state of Pará, he will be in charge of supporting the municipalities, especially in their housing, transportation and sewerage policies.
Lula da Silva and Jáder Barbalho Filho, in Brasilia.Andre Borges (EFE)
Juscelino Filho (São Luis, 38 years old).
Minister of Communications
Deputy, Filho belongs to União Brasil, the party furthest to the right of those that make up the new cabinet.
Sectors on the left criticized Lula for leaving the ministry in charge of regulating key sectors, such as messaging platforms and social networks, in the hands of the right.
Juscelino Filho, during the press conference on the transition. EVARISTO SA (AFP)
Alexandre Silveira (Belo Horizonte, 52 years old).
Minister of Mines and Energy
Silveira is a senator, but before that he was a lawyer and police commissioner.
In politics for many years, in the first Lula government he headed the national infrastructure department.
Alexandre Silveira, in Brasilia, on December 29. EVARISTO SA (AFP)
Paulo Teixeira (Águas de Prata, 61 years old).
Minister of Agrarian Development
Although there is also a Ministry of Agriculture, that one will be more focused on large companies, and this one, on family farming and small farmers.
Teixeira is a specialist in Constitutional Law and was chaining his fifth term as a deputy.
Lula da Silva and Paulo Teixeira, in Brasilia, on December 29, 2022. Andre Borges (EFE)
Ana Moser (Blumenau, 54 years old).
sports minister
Fue jugadora de vóley durante 15 años, medallista olímpica y mundial. Hace dos décadas fundó el Instituto Deporte y Educación, que actúa en barriadas pobres y forma a jóvenes profesores de educación física.
Ana Moser, en Brasilia, el 29 de diciembre de 2022.EVARISTO SA (AFP)
Daniela de Souza Carneiro (Río de Janeiro, 46 años). Ministra de Turismo
Pedagoga y diputada, es más conocida como ‘Daniela do Waguinho’, por la popularidad de su marido, alcalde de Belford Roxo, una ciudad de la periferia de Río de Janeiro. El clan familiar se esforzó en hacer campaña por Lula en una región muy bolsonarista.
Daniela de Souza Carneiro, durante la rueda de prensa sobre la transición.EVARISTO SA (AFP)
Renan Filho (Murici, 43 años) Ministro de Transportes
He is the son of veteran Senator Renan Calheiros, one of the most skilled congressmen.
He was mayor and governor in his home state of Alagoas.
Renan Filho, in Brasilia, on December 29, 2022. EVARISTO SA (AFP)
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