Brazil: women in key positions in Lula’s future government


The president-elect has unveiled the composition of his future government. Out of 37 portfolios, 11 are entrusted to women, including the Environment to Marina Silva.





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Former minister Marina Silva will join Lula’s new government in the key post of environment minister.
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Lula completed Thursday, December 29 to unveil the names of the members of his new government, which will take office after his official inauguration as president on 1er January 2023. Among the names revealed, those of two women are attached to emblematic portfolios: Marina Silva, who had already participated in a government under a previous mandate of Lula, is appointed to the Environment, while Sonia Guajajara is entrusted with the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples.

Sixteen ministers were appointed at a ceremony in Brasilia, bringing the number of portfolios of this bloated government to thirty-seven, that of outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro having only twenty-three. The future government of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva also makes room for diversity, with 11 women and several Afro-descendant ministers.

The Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, a campaign promise

Thursday’s most emblematic appointment is that of Marina Silva, a 64-year-old black woman who had previously been Lula’s environment minister from 2003 to 2008. This ministry 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.

The Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, also fundamental for 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 the magazine Time. This ministry did not exist before and its creation was one of the campaign promises of the left-wing president-elect.

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 of October 30.

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