Heads of Funai and Sesai will be indigenous, says Lula

President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said today (29) that he will appoint indigenous people to head the National Indian Foundation (Funai) and the Special Indigenous Health Secretariat (Sesai), after having named an indigenous woman, elected congresswoman Sônia Guajajara (PSol-SP), as the head of the new Ministry of Indigenous Peoples.

Lula said he was "happy" to have appointed the first indigenous minister in Brazilian history. "I spoke with Sônia Guajajara that it is a new experience, that we all have to work to help," the president-elect added.

He also said he will appoint women to chair the country's two main public banks - Caixa Econômica Federal and Banco do Brasil. "The Bank of Brazil is 200 years old and it was never even considered having a woman as president, and we will prove that a woman can be much better than many male presidents," said Lula.

The president-elect said he will defend the approval of a law to end the disparity in salaries between men and women who occupy the same positions in companies.