Cabinet of Brazil

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The Cabinet of Brazil (Portuguese: Gabinete Ministerial do Brasil) is the executive branch of the Brazilian government. It consists of the President, the Vice-President, the Ministers of State and several senior advisors appointed and dismissed by the President. The cabinet is headed by the president.

[edit] Current Cabinet

Meeting of the Cabinet of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva held in the Oval Room, Palácio do Planalto, 2007

The current cabinet consists of the following members:

Chief of Cabinet
President	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Vice-President	José Alencar
Ministries of State	Incumbent	Budget (2007)[1]
Minister of Defence	Nelson Jobim	$ 40.2 billion
Minister of Justice	Tarso Genro	$ 7 billion
Minister of External Relations	Celso Amorim	$ 1.9 billion
Minister of Finance	Guido Mantega	$ 13.2 billion
Minister of Transport	Alfredo Nascimento	$ 11.1 billion
Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply	Reinhold Stephanes	$ 6.5 billion
Minister of Education	Fernando Haddad	$ 27.6 billion
Minister of Culture	Gilberto Gil	$ 0.9 billion
Minister of Labour	Carlos Lupi	$ 35.3 billion
Minister of Social Security	Luiz Marinho	$ 190.5 billion
Minister of Health	José Gomes Temporão	$ 49.8 billion
Minister of Development, Industry and Trade	Miguel Jorge	$ 1.1 billion
Minister of Mines and Energy	Silas Rondeau	$ 5.4 billion
Minister of Planning, Budget and Management	Paulo Bernardo	$ 5.8 billion
Minister of Communications	Hélio Costa	$ 4.7 billion
Minister of Science and Technology	Sérgio Rezende	$ 5.4 billion
Minister of Environment	Carlos Minc	$ 2.7 billion
Minister of Sports	Orlando de Jesus Júnior	$ 1.4 billion
Minister of Tourism	Luiz Barretto Filho	$ 1.8 billion
Minister of National Integration	Geddel Vieira Lima	$ 8.1 billion
Minister of Agrarian Development	Guilherme Cassel	$ 3.3 billion
Minister of Cities	Márcio Fortes	$ 5.1 billion
Minister of Social Development	Patrus Ananias	$ 24.4 billion
Other cabinet-level offices	Incumbent
Vice-President	José Alencar
Chief of Staff	Dilma Rousseff
Head of the Military Cabinet	General of Army Jorge Armando Felix (four stars General)
Secretary-General	Luiz Dulci
Secretary of Institutional Affairs	Walfrido dos Mares Guia
Solicitor-General	José Antônio Dias Toffoli
Inspector-General	Jorge Hage Sobrinho
President of the Central Bank	Henrique Meirelles
Press Secretary	Franklin Martins

[edit] See also

• Federal institutions of Brazil

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• brasil.gov.br Official Brazilian Government Portal
• Presidência da República Official website of the Presidency of Brazil
• e.Gov Official Government Services and Information Portal