Former President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff was elected President of the New BRICS development bankthe company reported in a statement.
Seven years after he was removed from the presidency in an impeachment trial, Rousseff75, will take her first position of public presence after being chosen for the position by her political godfather and current Brazilian head of state Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvaback in power since January.
Rousseff was appointed to take over the bank “effective immediately,” the statement said.
Will succeed the Brazilian diplomat Marcos Troyjowho resigned two weeks ago after having been in office since 2020, the former president presented Jair Bolsonaro.
The former president will complete the remaining term of the rotating presidency, which corresponds to Brazil, until July 2025.
The Multilateral Development Bank BRICS –Group that Brazil integrates with Russia, India, China And South Africa– was founded in 2015 with the aim of funding infrastructure works and promoting sustainable development in these and other emerging countries.
The acceptance of Rousseff Scheduled for the 30th while driving to China from lulawhose departure was postponed from Saturday to Sunday because the President was diagnosed with pneumonia.
Rousseff During his presidency (2011-2016) “he made the fight against poverty a priority” and continued the social programs begun during the presidency lula (2003-2010), thanks to that Brazil managed to disappear from the UN hunger map, highlights the statement by the bank (NDB), based in shanghai.
A trained economist and Lula’s dolphin, Rousseff She became the first woman to assume the presidency in Brazil, and was given a second term that ended in her 2016 sacking on charges of fabricating public bills in a highly contentious process in Congress.
Since then, he has only run unsuccessfully for a Senate seat for the state Minas Gerais in 2018.
He returned to the center of the public scene last year when he actively accompanied Lula in the election campaign against right-wing extremists Bolsonaro.