Pará is the fifth largest energy producer in Brazil and the second largest miner. But no Pará native can occupy the Ministry of Mines and Energy. The nominee for Dilma Rousseff’s second government is Senator Eduardo Braga, a one-time Peemedebista who was governor of Amazonas, an energy-importing state. He will replace Édison Lobão, another peemedebista by adhesion, from Maranhão, a neighbor that receives most of its energy from Tucuruí.
However, Pará has had a decreasing stake in Eletronorte, the federal state-owned company that is responsible for the Tocantins river plant. For some mysterious reason, Senator José Sarney was in charge of the energy sector. With no prospects, he decided to gloriously give up his political career, defeated in his state and displaced in his adopted electoral stronghold, Amapá.
Without Sarney, Eduardo Braga moved into the ministry without any basis or familiarity with the subject. Will Pará not even have Eletronorte left? Or is there only the Fisheries Secretariat left in murky waters?
