A little more diversity.

Lula completed Thursday to form his left government with several appointments including those, emblematic, of Marina Silva as Minister of the Environment and Sonia Guajarara for Indigenous Peoples, three days before his investiture.

Long negotiations were necessary to achieve this bloated government with 37 portfolios, against 23 for that of outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro.



Since the return to democracy after the military dictatorship (1964-1985), never has an elected president taken so long to appoint all of his ministers since Fernando Collor de Mello, who did so the day before his took office in 1990.

Lula's future government, which begins its third term as head of the country on January 1, places great emphasis on diversity.

Gender parity is far from guaranteed, but 11 women have been appointed, compared to only two during the first Bolsonaro government in 2019.

A new ministry

Lula also appointed several Afro-descendant ministers, including Marina Silva, 64, who had already taken the environment portfolio during her first two terms (2003-2010), but had resigned in 2008, believing that she did not have the necessary means. to his action.

She went on to be a presidential candidate three times (2010, 2014 and 2018), failing in third place the first two times.

The Ministry of the Environment is of crucial importance in the eyes of the international community, which has followed with concern the increase in deforestation in the Amazon under the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro and expects a lot from Lula.

Marina Silva "is the best choice to restore the country's environmental governance, but she will have to face a much more difficult context than in 2003 and internal resistance within the government", estimated the NGO collective Observatoire du Climate in a press release.

The Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, also fundamental to the preservation of the largest rainforest on the planet, has been entrusted to Sonia Guajajara, 48, an indigenous leader recognized as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine .

This ministry did not exist before and its creation was one of the campaign promises of the left-wing president-elect.

First Council of Ministers "four days" after the investiture

Another influential woman was appointed to the Ministry of Planning: Simone Tebet, 52, a center-right senator who came third in the first round of the presidential election, and whose vote carryover (4%) proved decisive for the victory of Lula in the second round on October 30.

Former volleyball player Ana Moser, bronze medalist at the 1996 Olympics, will be Minister of Sports.

Lula, 77, also announced the forthcoming appointment of two women to head Brazil's two main public banks, Caixa Economica Federal and Banco do Brasil.

The first Council of Ministers will take place “three or four days” after the investiture, announced the elected president.


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