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Brazilian justice minister resigns

Xinhua, March 1, 2016 Adjust font size:

Brazilian Justice Minister Jose Eduardo Cardozo has resigned, the government announced Monday.

According to media reports, Cardozo was under pressure from the ruling Workers Party because he failed to curb a corruption investigation on the party's politicians and former Petrobras functionaries.

Cardozo will become the attorney general, and he will be replaced by Wellington Cesar Lima e Silva, former general prosecutor of the Bahia State, according to the presidency's Social Communications Secretariat.

The current attorney general, Luis Inacio Adams, is reportedly to leave the government for personal reasons. Endi