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Carlos Eduardo de Sousa Braga (born December 6, 1960) is a Brazilian politician and businessman, currently a republic senator from Amazonas. Better known as ''Eduardo Braga'', he was a councilman of Manaus (1981–1985), state deputy of amazonas (1987–1991), federal deputy from amazonas (1991–1993), vice-mayor of Manaus (1993–1994) and mayor of Manaus (1994–1997). He campaigned for the government of Amazonas in 1998 and for the city hall of
Manaus Manaus () is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. It is the seventh-largest city in Brazil, with an estimated 2020 population of 2,219,580 distributed over a land area of about . Located at the east center of the s ...
in 2000 without success. He was elected governor of Amazonas in October 2002, in the first turn, with 52.4% of the votes, and assumed office on 1 January 2003. In 2006, Braga was re-elected, in the first turn. He renounced in 2010 to run for the Senate on the elections of that year. On January 1, 2015, he was named Minister of Mines and Energy in the cabinet of
Dilma Rousseff Dilma Vana Rousseff (; born 14 December 1947) is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the 36th president of Brazil, holding the position from 2011 until her impeachment and removal from office on 31 August 2016. She is the first w ...
.Ministério de Minas e Energia
He is a member of the
Brazilian Democratic Movement The Brazilian Democratic Movement ( pt, Movimento Democrático Brasileiro, MDB) is a Brazilian political party. It is considered a " big tent party" and it is one of the parties with the greatest representation throughout the national territory, ...
(MDB).


See also

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List of mayors of Manaus The following is a list of mayors of the city of Manaus, in Amazonas state, Brazil. * , 1890 * José Carlos da Silva Telles, 1890-1891 * , 1891 * Leonardo Antônio Malcher, 1891 * Raimundo Pinto Brandão, 1891-1892 * Manoel Antônio Grang ...


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, - Living people 1960 births People from Belém Governors of Amazonas (Brazilian state) Mayors of Manaus Brazilian Democratic Movement politicians Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Brazil) from Amazonas Members of the Legislative Assembly of Amazonas Federal University of Amazonas alumni Energy ministers of Brazil {{Brazil-mayor-stub