Eduardo Braga | |
Office: | Senator for Amazonas |
Term Start: | February 1, 2011 |
Office1: | Senate Majority Leader |
Term Start1: | February 1, 2019 |
Predecessor1: | Office established |
Office2: | Minister of Mines and Energy |
President2: | Dilma Rousseff |
Term Start2: | January 1, 2015 |
Term End2: | April 21, 2016 |
Predecessor2: | Edison Lobão |
Successor2: | Marco Antônio Martins Almeida |
Office3: | 45th Governor of Amazonas |
Term Start3: | January 1, 2003 |
Term End3: | March 31, 2010 |
Predecessor3: | Amazonino Mendes |
Successor3: | Omar Aziz |
Birth Date: | 6 December 1960 |
Birth Place: | Belém, Pará, Brazil |
Party: | MDB |
Carlos Eduardo de Sousa Braga (born December 6, 1960) is a Brazilian politician and businessman, currently a republic senator from Amazonas.[1] Better known as Eduardo Braga, he was a councilman of Manaus (1981–1985), state deputy of amazonas (1987–1991), federal deputy from amazonas (1991–1993), vice-mayor of Manaus (1993–1994) and mayor of Manaus (1994–1997). He campaigned for the government of Amazonas in 1998 and for the city hall of Manaus in 2000 without success. He was elected governor of Amazonas in October 2002, in the first turn, with 52.4% of the votes, and assumed office on 1 January 2003. In 2006, Braga was re-elected, in the first turn. He renounced in 2010 to run for the Senate on the elections of that year.[2]
On January 1, 2015, he was named Minister of Mines and Energy in the cabinet of Dilma Rousseff.[3]
He is a member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB).
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