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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil's top presidential candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, said on Thursday that he was elected in the second round, he would appoint banker Paulo Guedes as minister of the economy. , responsible for overseeing a "super department" bringing together finance, planning and development portfolios.
S addressing reporters after meeting with members of his social-liberal party, the far-right politician announced that he would appoint retired army general Augusto Heleno Pereira as Minister of Defense and Congressman Onyx Lorenzoni as Chief of Staff. He also said that the conservative leader of agriculture, Nabhan Garcia, would not be leading another ministry bringing together the current ministries of agriculture and the environment.
(Report by Rodrigo Viga Gaier, Writing by Brad Brooks, Edited by Richard Chang)
