JoséSerra Chirico is a Brazilian politician who has served as a Congressman,Senator,Minister of Planning,Minister of Health,Mayor of São Paulo,Governor of São Paulo state,and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil.
Dilma Vana Rousseff is a Brazilian economist and politician who has been the Chair of the New Development Bank since March 2023. Previously,she served as the 36th president of Brazil from 2011 until her impeachment and removal from office on 31 August 2016. She is the first woman to have held the Brazilian presidency. She also previously served as the chief of staff to former and current president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from 2005 to 2010.
General elections were held in Brazil on 3 October 2010 to elect the president,National Congress and state governors. As no presidential candidate received more than 50% in the first round of voting,a second round was held on 31 October to choose a successor to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party (PT),who was constitutionally ineligible to run for a third term as he has already served two terms after winning the elections in 2002 and being re-elected in 2006.
Paulo Bernardo Silva is a Brazilian politician,member of the Workers' Party (PT). He was Minister of Communications during the government of Dilma Rousseff and Minister of Planning during the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
General elections were held in Brazil on 5 October 2014 to elect the president,the National Congress,and state governorships. As no candidate in the presidential election received more than 50% of the vote in the first round on 5 October 2014,a second-round runoff was held on 26 October 2014.
Events in the year 2015 in Brazil:
In 2015 and 2016,a series of protests in Brazil denounced corruption and the government of President Dilma Rousseff,triggered by revelations that numerous politicians allegedly accepted bribes connected to contracts at state-owned energy company Petrobras between 2003 and 2010 and connected to the Workers' Party,while Rousseff chaired the company's board of directors. The first protests on 15 March 2015 numbered between one and nearly three million protesters against the scandal and the country's poor economic situation. In response,the government introduced anti-corruption legislation. A second day of major protesting occurred 12 April,with turnout,according to GloboNews,ranging from 696,000 to 1,500,000. On 16 August,protests took place in 200 cities in all 26 states of Brazil. Following allegations that Rousseff's predecessor,Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva,participated in money laundering and a prosecutor ordered his arrest,record numbers of Brazilians protested against the Rousseff government on 13 March 2016,with nearly 7 million citizens demonstrating.
Events in the year 2016 in Brazil:
Bruno Cavalcanti de Araújo is a Brazilian lawyer and politician,filiated to the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB). Was discharged from his third term as federal deputy for the state of Pernambuco to assume the Ministry of Cities,appointed by the then acting president Michel Temer.
Patrus Ananias de Sousa is a Brazilian lawyer and politician,member of the Workers' Party (PT). He was Minister of Agrarian Development during the second term of president Dilma Rousseff.
Luiz Henrique Mandetta is a Brazilian pediatric orthopedist and politician,member of the Brazil Union (UNIÃO). Mandetta was announced on 20 November 2018 as Minister of Health of president Jair Bolsonaro,replacing Gilberto Occhi. On 16 April 2020 he was fired by Bolsonaro after disagreements over social distancing policies during the coronavirus pandemic.
A special election for the position of president of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil took place on July 14,2016,during the 55th legislature. The election was necessary due to the resignation of Eduardo Cunha,announced on the 7th of that month. According to the Brazilian Constitution,the president of the Chamber of Deputies is the second in line of succession to the Presidency of the Republic.
Vicente Paulo da Silva more commonly known as Vicentinho is a Brazilian politician as well as a syndicalist and trade union president. Although born in Rio Grande do Norte,he has spent his political career representing São Paulo,having served as federal deputy representative since 2003.
Glauber de Medeiros Braga is a Brazilian politician. He has spent his political career representing Rio de Janeiro,having served as federal deputy representative since 2011.
Luis Carlos Heinze is a federal senator of Brazil representing his home state of Rio Grande do Sul. He was previously served in the Chamber of Deputies from 1999 to 2019 and was mayor of São Borja from 1993 to 1996.
George Hilton dos Santos Cecílio more commonly known as George Hilton is a Brazilian politician and radio personality. Although born in Bahia,he has spent his political career representing Minas Gerais,having served as state representative since 2007.
Miguel Reale Júnior is a Brazilian jurist,politician,professor and lawyer. He was professor of Criminal Law at University of São Paulo (USP) and Minister of Justice in the government of Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Reale is son of the also jurist Miguel Reale and gained notoriety in 2015 when he proposed,along with jurists Hélio Bicudo and Janaína Paschoal,an impeachment request against president Dilma Rousseff.
Marco Antonio Raupp was a Brazilian mathematician and politician. He served as Director of the National Institute for Space Research,President of the Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência,and Minister of Science,Technology and Innovation.
The Movement Come to the Streets is a Brazilian sociopolitical movement founded in October 2014. The movement emerged in October 2014 as an attempt to organize and unite people in the face of the 2014 Brazilian economic crisis during the Dilma Rousseff government. The movement focused on the government of the former president,the fight against corruption,the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff and the approval of the 10 Measures against Corruption,a bill of the Federal Public Ministry.
Orlando Silva de Jesus Júnior is a Brazilian politician affiliated with the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB). He was Minister of Sports in the Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff governments and was elected federal deputy in 2014. In the Chamber of Deputies,he was vice-leader of President Dilma Rousseff between 2015 and 2016. He was chairman of the Labor,Administration and Public Services Commission in 2017,and leader of the PCdoB bench in 2018.
