Bolsonaro says he will keep Guedes and all other ministers if elected

President Jair Bolsonaro (PL, right) and candidate for re-election made remarks Sunday (9) about a possible reform of ministries if he is elected in the second round against former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT, left).

In a live interview with podcaster and Youtuber Paulo Figueiredo Filho, Bolsonaro was asked if he would keep Paulo Guedes as economy minister in a possible new government.

“If it depends on me, they will all stay [ministers],” he said.

The president was asked about the fact that many of his ministers did well in the first round of elections for various posts.

One of them was Tarcisio Gomes de Freitas (Republican), who left the portfolio of the Ministry of Infrastructure to run for the São Paulo state government in the second round, along with candidate Fernando Haddad (PT).

When asked about Tarcisio, Bolsonaro praised his successor, Marcelo Sampaio, the current minister, and state official, but did not say whether Sampaio would remain in office.

Asked if the former president and current senator Fernando Collor (PTB) would be nominated for minister, Bolsonaro replied “no comment.”

However, he pointed to the recent performance of the politician, against whom impeachment proceedings were initiated during his term as president and who lost the battle for the Alagoas state government this year.

“He was unlucky in Alagoas, he lost an election, but if he came as a congressman, he would win,” Bolsonaro said, saying Collor “knows the difficulty of being president.”

Collor said he supported Bolsonaro in the dispute in the second round of the presidential election.

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