President-elect Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday (09) defined the last member of the Esplanade of Ministries, which will have 22 folders. In a statement on his social networks, Bolsonaro informed that the lawyer and administrator Ricardo de Aquino Salles will be the minister of the Environment. “I communicate the appointment of Mr. Ricardo de Aquino Salles to be at the forefront of the future Ministry of the Environment,” he wrote on Twitter.
Salles is linked to the former governor of Sao Paulo, the toucan Geraldo Alckmin, defeated in this year’s presidential elections. Between 2013 and 2014, he was Alckmin’s private secretary. From 2016 to 2017, Salles was Secretary of Environment of São Paulo, informs the “Agência Brasil”.
In 2006 he participated in the foundation of the Right Movement Brazil (MEB), along with four friends. The entity was known for creating Freedom of Taxes Day in São Paulo in 2010, an event that occurs in May.
The future minister holds a law degree from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, a postgraduate degree from the universities of Coimbra and Lisbon, and a specialization in business administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas. In 2012, along with lawyer Guilherme Campos Abdalla, asked the impeachment of Minister Dias Toffoli, current president of the Federal Supreme Court, for a crime of responsibility, in the trial of the criminal action of the mensalão.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.