The Ministry of Education,also known as MEC,an initialism derived from its former name Ministry of Education and Culture,is a cabinet-level federal ministry of Brazil.
The Ministry of Cities is a cabinet-level federal ministry in Brazil,created on January 1,2003.
The Ministry of Sports is a cabinet-level federal ministry in Brazil. It was established in 1995 as the "Special Ministry of Sports";in 1998,this became the "Ministry of Sports and Tourism". In 2003,the Ministry of Tourism was separated from its portfolio. The cabinet was extinct by Jair Bolsonaro in 2019,folded into the Ministry of Citizenship,but Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced he would restore it in 2023,with Ana Moser as the new minister.
Sergio Fernando Moro is a Brazilian jurist,former federal judge,college professor and politician. He was elected to be a member of the Federal Senate for Paranáin October 2022. In 2015 he gained national attention as one of the lead judges in Operation Car Wash,a criminal investigation into a high-profile corruption and bribery scandal involving government officials and business executives. Moro was also Minister of Justice and Public Security under the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro from 2019 to 2020.
The Ministry of Communications is a cabinet-level federal ministry in Brazil.
The presidency of Jair Bolsonaro started on January 1,2019,when he was inaugurated as the 38th president of Brazil,and ended on December 31,2022,with the inauguration of the cabinet of Lula da Silva III on January 1,2023. He was elected the president of Brazil on October 28,2018,by obtaining 55.1% of the valid votes in the 2018 Brazilian general election,defeating Fernando Haddad. On October 30,2022,Bolsonaro was defeated by Lula da Silva. In the years Brazil has been a democracy since 1985,Bolsonaro became the first president to lose an election as an incumbent.
Augusto Heleno Ribeiro Pereira is a Brazilian politician retired General of the Brazilian Army. He was military commander of the Amazon and Chief of the Department of Science and Technology of the Army. Heleno has declared positions against official politics,particularly about the attitude of the international community in regards to Haiti and the indigenous politics of the Brazilian government.
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.
Gustavo Bebianno Rocha was a Brazilian lawyer and advisor to President Jair Bolsonaro (PSL). Bebianno became Acting Chairman of the Social Liberal Party in March 2018 after Luciano Bivar registered to run for federal deputy in the 2018 elections.
Opinion polling has been regularly conducted in Brazil since the start of Jair Bolsonaro's four-year term administration,gauging public support for the President of Brazil and his government. Typically,an approval rating is based on responses to a poll in which a sample of people are asked to evaluate the overall administration of the current president. Participants might also be asked whether they approve of the way president handles his job,if they trust him,to rate his personality,or to opine on various policies promoted by the government.
In December 2018,the final composition of Jair Bolsonaro's cabinet emerged after weeks of announcements and appointments. The cabinet includes 22 personnel,of which 16 are ministers,two are cabinet-level positions and four are secretaries directly linked to the presidency of Brazil. The 22 figure is down from 29 in the outgoing administration. Seven of the ministers will be military men;eight have technocrat profiles;and seven are politicians. Hindustan Times commented that "there are just two women in Bolsonaro’s government,which is double the number in the outgoing lineup under President Michel Temer",and that "there are no blacks,despite half of Brazil’s population being at least partly descended from Africans.
AndréLuiz de Almeida Mendonça is a Brazilian attorney,Presbyterian pastor,and politician currently serving as Justice of the Supreme Federal Court. He is the third evangelical Christian positioned to join the top court,and former Minister of Justice and Public Security and Attorney General of the Union in the administration of President Jair Bolsonaro. Prior to assuming this role,he served as Attorney General of Brazil in the same administration.
Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas is a Brazilian engineer and politician who has served as Governor of São Paulo since 1 January 2023. A member of the Republicanos party,Freitas served Minister of Infrastructure under President Jair Bolsonaro from 1 January 2019 to 31 March 2022.
Milton Ribeiro is a Brazilian protestant pastor,lawyer,theologian,professor and former Minister of Education of Brazil.
Eduardo Pazuello is a Brazilian Divisional general of the Brazilian Army and politician,he served as Minister of Health between 2020 and 2021. He was previously married to Daisy Berqvist;they divorced at the time of the birth of their twins in 2004.
A military crisis was triggered in March 2021 when Brazil's highest military officials resigned in response to President Jair Bolsonaro's attempts to politicize the armed forces. Since the beginning of his government,Bolsonaro has appointed an unprecedented amount of military personnel to civilian positions,seeking to receive,in exchange,support from the military,including through public demonstrations in favor of his government's policies and against the measures adopted by the governors to confront the COVID-19 pandemic,in addition to advocating the decree of the State of Defense,as a way to increase its powers.
The COVID-19 CPI,also known as Pandemic CPI,Coronavirus CPI,or simply COVID CPI,was a parliamentary commission of inquiry from Brazil,with the goal to investigate alleged omissions and irregularities in federal government actions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. It was created on April 13,2021 and officially installed in the Brazilian Senate on April 27,2021. It ended with the voting of the final report on October 26,2021.
The Case Covaxin,also known as Covaxgate,refers to an investigation made by the Brazilian Federal Public Ministry (MPF),held on June 16,2021,which found evidence of irregularities in the purchase of 20 million doses by the Ministry of Health of the Indian vaccine Covaxin,with the value of the vaccines 1000% higher than initially foreseen.
The Ministry of Infrastructure (MInfra) (Portuguese:Ministério da Infraestrutura) was a cabinet-level federal ministry in Brazil. It was a body of the direct administration of the Brazilian state,responsible for national traffic and transport policies (air,rail,road and waterway,in addition to airport and port infrastructure). The body succeeded the Ministry of Transport,having received the new designation and the attributions related to traffic with the election of Jair Bolsonaro to the Presidency of Republic. These were the responsibility of the extinct Ministry of Cities until then. The regimental structure of the ministry is established by Decree 9.676/19.
In December 2022,the final composition of the second Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's cabinet was announced after weeks of discussions and analysis by the transition cabinet. The first names were unveiled on 9 December.
