José Múcio

In December 2022, he was announced as Minister of Defense in the third Lula government.

In 2009, he was nominated to compose the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU), in the vacancy opened by the retirement of Marcos Vilaça, also from Pernambuco, having thus left the ministry and resigned as federal deputy. By 46 votes, his name was approved by the Federal Senate, taking office on October 20, 2009. On December 11, 2018, he was sworn in as president of TCU. On December 31, 2020, he left TCU.

On November 23, 2007, Lula's government leader in the Chamber of Deputies, received and accepted the president's invitation to assume the position of Minister of Institutional Relations, replacing Walfrido dos Mares Guia (PTB/MG), who resigned from the to have his name involved with that of toucan politicians from Minas Gerais, in the so-called "Mensalão tucano".

Even so, he was re-elected in the 2006 elections for a fifth term in ninth place with 120,398 votes, his historic maximum. He was behind Armando Monteiro, also from the PTB, with 205 212 votes.

He became notable for being leader of the PTB at the height of what became known as the 2005 monthly allowance scandal, having acted as a defender of the then president of his party, deputy Roberto Jefferson, who had his mandate revoked.

In 2003, he joined the Brazilian Labor Party (PTB). Admitted to the Order of Military Merit in 1993 in the rank of Special Commander by President Itamar Franco, Monteiro was promoted in 2003 by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to the rank of Grand Officer.

In 2001, he left the PFL for the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB), although both parties were coalition partners in the state along with the PMDB. In the 2002 elections , he began his fourth term in 14th place. With 78,610 votes, he trailed fellow coalition member Carlos Eduardo Cadoca (PMDB), state deputy running for the Chamber for the first time, and his 211,864 votes.

In the 1998 elections , he was re-elected in tenth place with 72,991 votes, with the majority of votes from the PFL electorate going to his party partner Inocêncio de Oliveira, who got 162,412 votes.

He was re-elected again in the 1994 elections, this time in a coalition with the PSDB candidate Fernando Henrique Cardoso, the favorite in the race for the presidency. With 88,539 votes, he was the fifth most voted deputy in the state, again behind Roberto Magalhães.

In the 1990 elections, he ran for the Chamber of Deputies for the same party. Boosted by the victory of Joaquim Francisco of the PFL as governor, he was elected as the fourth most voted deputy in Pernambuco, with 63,470 votes. In the coalition, he was only behind former governor Roberto Magalhães (PFL), starting his new deputy career with 205 341 votes.

Deputy mayor, he was elected mayor, but did not assume the mayoral mandate to assume the presidency of CELPE and later the Secretary of Transport, between 1982 and 1985, he was affiliated from 1980 to the Social Democratic Party (PDS), migrating later to the Liberal Front Party (PFL), renamed Democrats (DEM) in 2007. He presided over Companhia Energética de Pernambuco (CELPE; now Neoenergia Pernambuco) before becoming a candidate for governor of Pernambuco in the 1986 elections. With 1 018 800 votes (39.09%), he came second in the race, losing to Miguel Arraes and his 1 587 726 votes (60.91%).

José Múcio Monteiro Filho (born 25 September 1948) is a Brazilian civil engineer and politician, affiliated with the Brazilian Labor Party (PTB). He was president of the Federal Audit Court (TCU) appointed by the Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva government and Minister of Institutional Relations during the same government.