The president-elect of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has chosen the leader of the Workers’ Party (PT) in the Sao Paulo delegation, Luiz Marinho, to become the head of the Ministry of Labor, a position he already held between 2005 and 2007.
Marinho’s appointment will be made official next week, together with others chosen by Lula to accompany him in his new stage in the Planalto Palace. His appointment breaks with the idea that he would not repeat ministers from previous governments, as he suggested during the campaign.
However, Marinho, with an extensive career in the São Paulo administration, has the approval of the unions. Like Lula, he began his political career at the head of the Metalworkers’ Unions of the ABC (southeast zone of Greater Sao Paulo) and later led the Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT), a trade union center affiliated to the PT, reports ‘O Globo’.
A year after leaving the Ministry of Labor, he was elected mayor of the São Paulo municipality of Sao Bernardo del Campo, a position he later revalidated in 2012. In 2018, he ran for governor of São Paulo, but came in fourth place.
