User:Mharkinct/Jader Barbalho Filho

Jader Fontenelle Barbalho Filho (Belém, 24 June 1976) is a Brazilian administrator and politician, member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement party (MDB), and current Minister of Cities in Brazil under the administration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Biography
Jader Filho was born in Belém do Pará, the son of former Pará governor Jader Barbalho and representative Elcione Barbalho. He is the brother of the current governor of Pará, Helder Barbalho, the cousin of José Priante and Igor Normando, and nephew and cousin, respectively, of actors Lúcio Mauro and Lúcio Mauro Filho. Jader Filho is a businessman with experience in communication. He is also the president of Grupo RBA, whose shareholding control is held by his father. In addition to being a relative of important MDB leaders in the Brazilian state of Pará, he has chaired the MDB party in his home state since 2019.

On 29 December 2022, he was announced as head of the Ministry of Cities, a ministry that coordinates programs such as Minha Casa, Minha Vida (Brazil's federal housing program created in March 2009), and which was recreated under the Ministry of Regional Development. Jader Filho was one of three MDB nominees for Lula's third-term cabinet.