The executive secretary of the Ministry of Mines and Energy, Arthur Cerqueira Valério, resigned with the aim of working in private law. He had already expressed to the Minister (Mines and Energy) his desire to leave after having spent three years in the portfolio, after having agreed to a period of just one year.
Valério is a career civil servant at the AGU (Attorney General’s Office) and will also ask the body for permission to work in the private sector. The request must be analyzed by the Ethics Committee of the Presidency of the Republic, responsible for deciding whether a quarantine period will be necessary for the transition.
There has still been no decision in the ministry regarding who will remain in the executive secretariat now. With his departure, Valério will not participate in the eventual musical chairs at the MME if Silveira leaves to contest the elections.
The minister stated in an interview with Sheet last year that, although he said that the final decision would be made by Lula (PT). The legislation requires ministers to leave office by April to run in elections.
“If I had to choose, I would very much like to serve my state as a senator of the Republic”, declared Silveira in July on , a weekly videocast from Sheet. “But I reaffirm my commitment to being selected by President Lula where he understands that I will be most useful for his project, for the project of the country that he represents.”
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