Mensalão scandal funneled through an advertising agency owned by Marcos Valério. The investigation has since uncovered members of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, DEM, Brazilian Democratic Movement Party and seven other political parties also involved. Many key advisers to Lula resigned, and several deputies were faced with the choice of resignation or expulsion from congress, though the president himself went on to be re-elected in 2006, and in 2010 Brazil elected his chief of staff, Dilma Rousseff, as president. Much of PT's leadership was affected in some way, with many resigning or failing to win re-election. Brazil's economy was widely perceived as
Patrus Ananias as new Minister of Agrarian Development of the second cabinet of Dilma Rousseff. In 14 April 2016, he left temporarily the Ministry because of the voting of the "impeachment" proceedings against Dilma Rousseff. Returned to office in 19 April, whom he was kept until the Rousseff's suspension and the swearing-in of acting president Michel Temer. He is also a member of the World Future Council. https://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/ Patrus Ananias Patrus Ananias de Sousa (Bocaiúva, 26 January 1952) is Brazilian lawyer and politician, member of the Workers' Party (PT). He was Minister of Agrarian Development during the second term of president Dilma