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Marina Silva
Current politicianBrazil

Marina Silva

Federal deputy for São Paulo (term ends January 2027); Minister of the Environment and Climate Change from January 2023 to April 2026; lost the October 2026 Senate race in São Paulo · Sustainability Network (REDE)

Maria Osmarina Marina Silva Vaz de Lima

Marina Silva was Brazil's Environment Minister from 2023 to April 2026. She lost the October 2026 Senate race in São Paulo and keeps a Chamber seat until January 2027.

Positions as of 30 October 2026
Profile on 12 axes6 of 12 documented
ECONOMYSTATESOCIETYWORLDOwnershipMarketsWelfareAuthoritySecurityStructureMoralityReligionTechnologyCultureTradeForeign

Positions are taken from public statements, voting records and platforms as of 30 October 2026, and may have changed since. Report an inaccuracy.

Where they stand

The 12 axes, axis by axis

  1. 01OwnershipNo clear record
    PublicPrivate
  2. 02Markets-20
    PlannedFree

    She has backed fiscal responsibility, a floating currency and an independent central bank, but her record is about regulating economic activity for environmental ends, for example in the licensing law. The score is mildly toward planned.

  3. 03WelfareNo clear record
    SharedSelf-reliant
  4. 04Authority-40
    DemocraticStrong leader

    In 2022 she warned that the alternative to democracy meant the annihilation of Indigenous peoples and she campaigned for Lula. The score leans democratic.

  5. 05SecurityNo clear record
    LibertyOrder
  6. 06StructureNo clear record
    LocalCentral
  7. 07Morality+40
    ProgressiveTraditional

    She has opposed widening the legal grounds for abortion and proposed referendums on same-sex marriage and marijuana in 2010. The score is moderately traditional.

  8. 08Religion+50
    SecularReligious

    She converted to Pentecostal Protestantism in 1997 and was ordained a pastor in 2012. The score leans religious.

  9. 09Technology+35
    EmbraceCaution

    The Ibama refusal of Petrobras drilling at the Amazon river mouth, which she defended, reflects a cautious view of extractive projects. The score leans toward caution.

  10. 10Culture-50
    MulticulturalNational identity

    She has defended Indigenous rights against Bolsonaro-era policy and praised vetoes that protected Indigenous peoples in the licensing law. The score is multicultural.

  11. 11TradeNo clear record
    GlobalProtected
  12. 12Foreign policyNo clear record
    CooperationStrength

6 axes have no clear record: no documented statement, vote or platform places Marina Silva there, so matching leaves them out.

Who is Marina Silva?

Marina Silva was born in 1958 in Acre. She was a city councillor, state deputy and, from 1995 to 2011, a senator, and she served as Lula's Environment Minister from 2003 to 2008. She left the PT in 2009 and ran for president in 2010, 2014 and 2018, then founded REDE. Elected federal deputy for São Paulo in 2022, she returned as Environment and Climate Minister in January 2023. On 1 April 2026 she left the ministry to run for the Senate in São Paulo for the PSOL-REDE federation. On 4 October she finished fourth, with about 7.86 million votes and 18.12 percent of valid votes, behind the winners Guilherme Derrite and André do Prado and Simone Tebet.

Previously: Minister of the Environment and Climate Change (January 2023 to April 2026) · Federal deputy for São Paulo (elected 2022) · Presidential candidate (2010, 2014 and 2018) · Minister of the Environment (2003-2008) · Senator for Acre (1995-2011)

Documented positions

  • Amazon deforestation fell 11.08 percent to 5,796 square kilometres between August 2024 and July 2025, the third consecutive annual drop, and she called the environment a priority across the Lula government.Source: portalamazonia.com
  • In August 2023 she defended Ibama's refusal of Petrobras drilling near the Amazon river mouth, saying the agency 'does not give political licences, it gives technical licences'.Source: itatiaia.com.br
  • In August 2025 she praised Lula's 63 vetoes to the environmental licensing law, which blocked self-declared licensing for medium-pollution activities, saying they were the vetoes her ministry worked on.Source: eixos.com.br
  • Her economic positions have included fiscal responsibility, a freely floating currency and an independent central bank, alongside a socio-environmental model with green jobs and a 2050 carbon-neutrality goal.Source: cidob.org
  • A Pentecostal and ordained pastor, she has opposed expanding the legal grounds for abortion and in 2010 proposed putting abortion, same-sex marriage and marijuana legalisation to referendums.Source: cidob.org
  • She left the ministry on 1 April 2026 to run for the Senate in São Paulo and stayed in REDE, within the PSOL-REDE federation.Source: infomoney.com.br
  • In October 2026 she campaigned for Lula and called Flávio Bolsonaro's claims about deforestation ignorant, citing INPE data showing the lowest Amazon deforestation in the historical series.Source: brasildefato.com.br

Record

Her second ministry coincided with three straight annual falls in Amazon deforestation, according to INPE's Prodes system. Disputes also marked it: Ibama's 2023 refusal of Petrobras drilling near the Amazon river mouth, which she defended as technical, and the environmental licensing law, where she said her ministry worked on Lula's 63 vetoes while the Special Environmental Licence stayed in the text.

Supporters point to the deforestation figures and say the environmental agenda is a priority across the government, as she has put it. In the 2026 campaign Flávio Bolsonaro said the government held records of environmental degradation, a claim she rejected with INPE data.

In their words

“Cumpri as missões que me foram confiadas.”
Social media post on leaving the Environment Ministry, 1 April 2026

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Marina Silva: questions

Is Marina Silva left or right?

She is usually placed on the centre-left through her environmental and Indigenous-rights record, but she is also a Pentecostal pastor who has opposed wider abortion rights.

Which party is Marina Silva in?

REDE Sustentabilidade, which she founded. In 2026 she ran for the Senate under the PSOL-REDE federation.

Did Marina Silva win a Senate seat in 2026?

No. She finished fourth in the São Paulo Senate race on 4 October 2026 with about 18 percent of valid votes. She keeps her Chamber seat until January 2027.

Sources

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Portrait: 01.01.2023 - Posse de Marina Silva, Ministra de Estado do Meio Ambiente (52623748361) (cropped).jpg by Palácio do Planalto from Brasilia, Brasil, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and converted to grayscale by 12axes-test.com.