Brazilian President appoints new Sports Minister

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　　Rebelo, who is expected to take office on Monday, replaces Orlando Silva, who stepped down on Wednesday following accusations¹ of heading a scheme to embezzle² Ministry³ funds.

　　The new minister is a House Representative affiliated⁴ to the Communist Party of Brazil (PC do B), the same as Silva. The Sports Minister is the only position taken by PC do B in Rousseff's administration.

　　Rebelo, 55, presided a decade ago a special Congressional committee in charge of investigating the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF). Recently, he was the main author of a project to reform Brazil's Forest Code.

　　The project earned Rebelo a bad relations with environmentalists, for whom the project is exceedingly favorable to the agricultural sector⁵ and less concerned with actual environmental protection.

　　The change in the Sports Ministry is the eighth cabinet shift in 10 months of Rousseff's government. Two swapped⁶ positions and six resigned, five of them following corruption⁷ accusations.

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