President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva temporarily exonerated 13 ministers to assume their mandates in the National Congress. The names were published in Official Diary of the Union. This Wednesday is the opening of the Legislative year, with the inauguration of parliamentarians elected in October last year and the election of the board of directors of the Chamber and the Senate.
Deputies and senators who assume the position of Minister of State do not lose their parliamentary function. During their mandate, it is common for them to leave their positions to vote on projects of interest to the government in Congress. In today’s vote, the government supports the reelection of the presidents of both houses, Arthur Lira in the Chamber and Rodrigo Pacheco in the Senate.
The ministers who take office in the Senate are Camilo Santana (Education), Flávio Dino (Justice and Public Security), Renan Filho (Transport) and Wellington Dias (Development and Social Assistance, Family and Fight against Hunger). Minister Carlos Fávaro (Agriculture and Livestock) was elected in 2018 and is in the middle of his term as a senator, but he also took a leave of absence from the ministry to vote in the Senate election.
In the Chamber, ministers Alexandre Padilha (Secretary of Institutional Relations), Paulo Pimenta (Secretary of Social Communication), Juscelino Filho (Communications), Paulo Teixeira (Agrarian Development and Family Agriculture), Marina Silva (Environment) assume the mandates of deputies. , Sonia Guajajara (Indigenous Peoples), Luiz Marinho (Work and Employment) and Daniela Carneiro (Tourism).
