The changes appear in an extra edition of the Official Gazette of the Union, but they did not divulge the names of the substitutes.
Only Jairo Lima, interim superintendent of the PRF in the state of Piauí (northeast), was exonerated.
The commanders of Goiás, Rio de Janeiro, Sergipe, Pernambuco, Maranhao, Mato Grosso, Tocantins, Paraíba, Alagoas, Sao Paulo, Paraná, Pará, Amazonas, Minas Gerais, Rio Grande do Norte, Mato Grosso do Sul, Rondonia leave their posts and Santa Catarina.
In the same edition, the Minister of the Civil House, Rui Costa, changed the directors of the Federal Police (PF) in 18 states.
The list of new directors includes delegate Leandro Almada da Costa, who led the investigation into the murder of black councilor Marielle Franco, in 2018, and will now lead the PF in Rio.
Sources close to the Justice portfolio indicate that these substitutions did not emerge now, but were addressed in the transition stage of the new Government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
The day before, the Executive removed 13 soldiers who were coordinating the presidential defense of the so-called Institutional Security Cabinet.
The day before, another 40 uniformed officers, who performed Lula’s security, were dismissed from their duties, but continue within the Armed Forces.
The dismissals occur amid the distrust expressed by the president with the actions of the military during the coup attacks on January 8, when radical supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro invaded the headquarters of the National Congress, the Federal Supreme Court and the Presidency.
The ex-unionist affirmed last week there was perceived complicity between members of the Armed Forces and the Military Police of the DF with the extremist Bolsonaristas (followers of the former Army captain).
Lula also complained he is still not in a position to transfer to the Alvorada Palace due to the poor state of conservation of the official residence after Bolsonaro resided there for four years.
Although the publication does not present justification for the dismissals, they emerged after the first lady Rosângela Lula da Silva, popularly known as Janja, recently exposed the damage found in Alvorada during a tour with a GloboNews television journalist.
Janja showed ripped carpets and sofas, leaking walls, broken windows and missing artwork, which must be traced to their whereabouts.
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