José Aldo Rebelo Figueiredo (born 23 February 1956) is a Brazilian politician and a federal deputy elected by the state of

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. He was President of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil from 2005 to 2007. With President

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and Vice President José Alencar undergoing medical tests in the

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, Rebelo became the first

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to assume the duties of acting

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on 12 November 2006. His brief period in office lapsed the next day upon Lula's return. He was the main author of a controversial project to change Brazil's Forest Code introduced in the 1960s. Those changes, lobbied by Brazilian farmers, aimed to extend the areas that can be legally deforested. Although President Rousseff vetoed some parts of the law drafted under Rebelo's leadership and finally passed in May 2012, critics such as the WWF saw the law as a catastrophe for the Amazon forest. Rebelo was the Minister of Sports from 27 October 2011 until 31 December 2014. He was the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation from 1 January 2015 to 1 October 2015. He was the Minister of Defense in the cabinet of President Dilma Rousseff from 1 October 2015 to 12 May 2016, when he was replaced by the acting president Michel Temer. He left the Communist Party in August, but then joined the Brazilian Socialist Party in September 2017. On 12 April 2018, he left the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) for being against a possible candidacy of the former minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) Joaquim Barbosa. Rebelo joined Solidariedade (SD) on the same day. On 26 July 2018, Rebelo officially withdrew his candidacy after the party announced support for

Geraldo Alckmin Geraldo José Rodrigues Alckmin Filho (; born 7 November 1952) is a Brazilian politician who is the vice president-elect of Brazil. He previously served as the Governor of São Paulo from 2001 to 2006, and then again from 2011 to 2018, the long ...

along with other parties in the political center, and the name of Rebelo himself as a running mate of Alckmin was also discarded. On 18 August 2018, he took over as State Secretary of Chief of Staff on

Márcio França Márcio Luiz França Gomes (born 23 June 1963) is a Brazilian lawyer and politician, member of the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB), and former governor and vice governor of São Paulo, elected with Geraldo Alckmin in 2014. França assumed the o ...

's government (PSB), who became governor of

with Alckmin's resignation. In December 2019, he left Solidariedade. In August 2021, he launched himself as a presidential candidate again, besides not being affiliated with any party. In March 2022, Rebelo joined the Democratic Labour Party (PDT). Football fan, is a declared fan of Palmeiras.

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