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Lula's former finance minister and close aide to leave Brazil government transition

FILE PHOTO: Brazil's Finance Minister Guido Mantega arrives at the Ministry of Finance in Brasilia December 4, 2014. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino/File Photo

The transition government of Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will no longer count on the participation of his former finance minister and close aide Guido Mantega, who asked to be removed on Thursday.

According to the transition team's press officer, Mantega sent a letter to Vice President-elect Geraldo Alckmin, who then thanked him. The removal request was published earlier by the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo.

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