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Rousseff names four loyalists to cabinet to replace dissidents

Xinhua, April 23, 2016 Adjust font size:

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday named four new ministers to her cabinet, after several had left her government in recent weeks amid the ongoing impeachment process, according to the government's official daily gazette.

The new ministers of Mines and Energy, Ports, Cities and Tourism, are all Rousseff loyalists, who have all held senior positions in the government in the past and are thus seen as safe pairs of hands.

Eight ministers have quit Rousseff's already fragile government in recent weeks in support of the impeachment against her. They are not members of her Workers' Party.

The ministerial posts of Sports, National Integration, Civil Aviation and Science and Technology remain vacant. Endi