Actress Regina Duarte Accepts Learning Period at Culture Secretariat

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – According to the Planalto Palace, actress Regina Duarte has accepted to learn more about the Special Secretariat of Culture. The statement does not clarify whether she will take over the portfolio.

Read the statement below:

“After a productive conversation with President Jair Bolsonaro, Regina Duarte will be in Brasília next Wednesday, January 22nd, to meet the Special Secretariat of Culture of the federal government. “We are dating,” said the artist after the meeting held in the afternoon in Rio de Janeiro.

Regina Duarte was invited by President Jair Bolsonaro to take over the Secretariat of Culture on Friday, January 17th, after the dismissal of Secretary Roberto Alvim. When announcing the National Arts Award, a federal government program for the area with an investment of R$20 (US$5) million for public edicts with direct government contributions, the then secretary quoted a Nazi leader.

On Twitter, President Bolsonaro said he had “an excellent conversation about the future of culture” in Brazil. “We have begun an engagement that will possibly bear fruit in the country,” he wrote.

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