Rousseff announces appointed officials for second term
President Dilma Rousseff and her final cabinet choices for her second term as president
President Dilma Rousseff announced today (Dec. 31) her final cabinet choices for her second term as president beginning as of her inauguration tomorrow (Jan. 1st). She has appointed Ambassador Mauro Luiz Iecker Vieira as Foreign Minister and retained 13 of the current cabinet members. Mauro Vieira currently serves as Brazil's ambassador in Washington and will swap positions with the current Foreign Minister, Luiz Alberto Figueiredo.
The list of cabinet and senior officials for the second Rousseff administration is as follows:
Attorney-General – Luís Inácio Adams
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Supply – Kátia Abreu
Central Bank – Alexandre Tombini
Chief of Staff – Aloizio Mercadante
Ministry of Cities – Gilberto Kassab
Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation – Aldo Rebelo
Ministry of Communications – Ricardo Berzoini
Comptroller-General – Valdir Simão
Ministry of Culture – Juca Ferreira
Ministry of Defense – Jaques Wagner
Ministry of Development, Industry, and Foreign Trade – Armando Monteiro
Ministry for Rural Development – Patrus Ananias
Ministry of Social Development and Fight against Hunger – Tereza Campello
Ministry of Education – Cid Gomes
Ministry of Sport – George Hilton
Ministry of Finance – Joaquim Levy
Office of Institutional Security – José Elito Carvalho Siqueira
Ministry of National Integration – Gilberto Occhi
Ministry of Justice – José Eduardo Cardozo
Ministry for the Environment – Izabella Teixeira
Ministry of Mines and Energy – Eduardo Braga
Ministry of Planning, Budget, and Management – Nelson Barbosa
Ministry of Social Security – Carlos Gabas
Ministry of Foreign Relations – Mauro Vieira
Ministry of Health – Arthur Chioro
Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture – Helder Barbalho
Secretariat for Small Businesses – Guilherme Afif Domingos
Secretariat for Strategic Affairs – Marcelo Neri
Secretariat for Civil Aviation – Eliseu Padilha
Secretariat of Social Communications – Thomas Traumann
Secretariat for Human Rights – Ideli Salvatti
Secretariat for Racial Equality – Nilma Lino Gomes
Secretariat for Women's Rights – Eleonora Menicucci
Secretariat for Ports – Edinho Araújo
Secretariat of Government Relations – Pepe Vargas
General Secretariat of the Presidency – Miguel Rossetto
Ministry of Labor and Employment – Manoel Dias
Ministry of Transport – Antonio Carlos Rodrigues
Ministry of Tourism – Vinicius Lages
Translated by Mayra Borges
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