He is a member of the Workers' Party (Brazil) and he was the Mayor of Belo Horizonte from 2001 to 2009 and currently is the Minister of Development, Industry and External Market of Brazil on Cabinet of Dilma Rousseff.
In a controversial interview to Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo in December 2, 2012, justice Fux revealed details of the lobbying effort that preceded his nomination to the Supreme Court by President Dilma Rousseff.
During this time, she met Dilma Rousseff, who in October 2010, would be elected to serve as the first female President of Brazil.
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On February 9, 2012, Foster was elected to serve as a member of the Petrobras Board of Directors and after a nomination by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, she was chosen to take over the helm of the company as the Chief Executive Officer, replacing José Sérgio Gabrielli, who had served as the head of the company for seven years.
Britto ended up the dispute in third place, underneath fellow Congressman Carlos Araújo (then husband of Dilma Rousseff) of the Democratic Labour Party.
On 8 December 2010 President-elect Dilma Rousseff appointed Maria do Rosário to succeed Paulo Vannuchi as head of the Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic for Human Rights, a ministerial-level cabinet office.
President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff, in her Twitter account, said to be happy with the film's indication to the 86th Academy Awards, stating it's a "beautiful film".