Eduardo Braga

Born Dec 6, 1960

Carlos Eduardo de Sousa Braga is a Brazilian politician and businessman, currently a senator representing the state of Amazonas.
Better known as Eduardo Braga, he was a councilman in Manaus, state deputy, representative, vice-mayor and mayor. 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.
On January 1, 2015, he was named Minister of Mines and Energy in the cabinet of Dilma Rousseff.
He is a member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement.
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