President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will appoint Minas Gerais state deputy Macaé Evaristo (PT) to the Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship. The parliamentarian and former Secretary of Education of Minas Gerais was at the Planalto Palace this Monday (9) and the appointment will be published today in an extra edition of the Official Gazette of the Union.
“Today I invited state deputy Macaé Evaristo to take over the Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship. She accepted. I will sign her appointment soon. Welcome and keep up the good work,” said Lula, in social media post.
State Deputy Macaé Evaristo alongside President Lula, she will take over the Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship. Ricardo Stuckert/PR
The Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship is temporarily under the responsibility of the Minister of Management and Innovation in Public Services, Esther Dweck. On Friday (6), the then head of the ministry, Silvio Almeida, was dismissed following allegations of moral and sexual harassment. Almeida denies the accusations.
Macaé Evaristo has a degree in Social Work, a master’s degree in Education and is a PhD candidate in the same area at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. The new Minister of Human Rights is a teacher in the Municipal Education Network of Belo Horizonte, where she worked as a coordinator and director of a public school.
The parliamentarian was the manager of the Pedagogical Policy Coordination, deputy secretary and Municipal Secretary of Education of Belo Horizonte, from 2004 to 2012. She was a professor of the Indigenous Intercultural Teaching Course and coordinated the Program for the Implementation of Indigenous Schools in Minas Gerais from 1997 to 2003.
Macaé Evaristo also served as Secretary of Literacy, Diversity and Inclusion at the Ministry of Education and was Secretary of Education for Minas Gerais from 2015 to 2018.
