Overview

• União Brasil ordered its ministers to resign after moving to the opposition, but Celso Sabino said leaving now would be a “great cowardice.”
• The party suspended him from activities and opened an expulsion process after he refused to step down.
• Sabino argued the tourism portfolio is central to COP30 planning in Belém, citing bilingual signage, workforce training and hospitality infrastructure.
• He said Brazil has logged about 7 million international visitors through October and is pursuing 10 million this year, alongside more than R$2 billion in tourism works and technical partnerships with IATA and CAF on sustainable aviation fuel.
• Sabino had submitted a resignation letter earlier but stayed in the job at President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s request, according to Valor.