Who is Adolfo Sachsida, and what role is he taking in Flavio Bolsonaro's presidential campaign?

Adolfo Sachsida is a former energy minister and economic policy secretary under ex-President Jair Bolsonaro, and he has been named as a campaign economic adviser to presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro; according to the campaign statement, he will help draw up the conservative candidate’s economic plan, drawing on his prior work designing reforms that modernized credit, capital, insurance, and collateral markets, as well as implementing tax cuts for fuels, electricity, and telecommunications that contributed to three months of deflation in 2022.

What is notable about the composition of Flavio Bolsonaro's newly announced economic and policy advisory team?

The team includes Adolfo Sachsida as an economic adviser, Daniella Marques—who joined in June and remains a spokesperson on economic policy—alongside new additions such as Lyvia Montezano and Carolina Ragazzi for women’s empowerment proposals, and energy specialists Adriano Pires and Alexandre Chequer for energy policy; notably, Bolsonaro has stated his intention to appoint a woman as finance minister, though he has not yet named anyone.

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