Brazil's Bolsonaro shuffles cabinet, recreates labor ministry


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  • Wednesday, 28 Jul 2021

FILE PHOTO: Brazilian Senator Ciro Nogueira gestures after meeting with Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro (not pictured) at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil July 27, 2021. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro appointed center-right Senator Ciro Nogueira as his chief of staff on Wednesday to shore up waning political support in Congress, and recreated the labor ministry to deal with record unemployment.

Nogueira, a leader of the Progressives Party (PP) to which lower house speaker Arthur Lira also belongs, will be Bolsonaro's closest aide and minister, replacing a retired general.

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