Brazil’s president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who will take office on Sunday, has appointed Workers’ Party (PT) senator Jean Paul Prates as the new president of the Brazilian oil company Petrobras.
His appointment is, as reported by the newspaper ‘O Globo’, controversial due to the State Property Law, which prohibits a person who has acted in the last 36 months in the decision making of a political party to be elected.
The controversial appointment, expected, on the other hand, has been announced by Lula himself in his official Twitter profile, and has been made public after a meeting between the president-elect and Prates, who was his main interlocutor for the energy sector during his electoral campaign.
The 54-year-old senator, lawyer and economist was a member of the legal counsel at Braspetro, the Petrobras subsidiary, and also Secretary of State for Energy in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte.
Prates, who was even nominated by Lula to occupy the portfolio of the Ministry of Mines and Energy, took office as senator in 2019 to replace Fátima Bezerra, who was elected governor of Rio Grande do Norte, as reported by the newspaper ‘Folha de S. Paolo’.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
