Lula expected to turn to trusted aides for Cabinet posts


  • World
  • Monday, 31 Oct 2022

Brazil's former President and presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva leads the 'march of victory', in Sao Paulo, Brazil October 29, 2022. REUTERS/Carla Carniel

SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who narrowly won Sunday's election, has been cagey about potential Cabinet choices while on the campaign trail, but some names of trusted allies are expected to be in the new government on Jan. 1.

They include Workers Party stalwarts Alexandre Padilha and Fernando Haddad, former governors Wellington Dias and Flavio Dino, and new allies Simone Tebet and Marina Silva who helped Lula defeat far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro.

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