Alfredo Pereira do Nascimento (born May 5, 1952) was Brazil's minister of Transport. He is a member of the

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, and was the party's president until he resigned in 2016 in support of the

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. He has occasionally been at odds with environmental minister

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over projects in Amazonas and

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/ref> Nascimento was mayor of Manaus in the year 1988 and between 1997 until 2004, when he resigned to take over the Ministry of Transport of Brazil

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