“On Monday, we changed the leadership of six ministries, the corresponding appointments will be published in the Official Gazette,” he wrote on his Telegram channel.

After the resignation of General Azevedo e Silva, the Ministry of Defense will be headed by Walter Souza Braga Netta, who previously headed the General Staff.

The new foreign minister is ambassador and diplomat Carlos Alberto Franco France, who also served as special adviser to the president of the republic.

The Ministry of Justice and Public Security will be led by Federal Police Representative Anderson Gustavu Torres, who until now has served as the Metropolitan Minister of Security.

André Luis de Almeida Mendonça, the current Minister of Justice, returns to the post of Attorney General of Brazil - he led this department at the start of the current government.

The current Minister of the Interior, Luis Eduardo Ramos, will head the presidential civil chamber, and the federal deputy Flavia Arruda will take his post.

On March 16, it was reported that Bolsonaro decided to appoint cardiologist Marcela Keyrog as Minister of Health.