Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff speaks during a press conference to announce a cabinet reshuffle at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, October 2, 2015. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's beleaguered President Dilma Rousseff shrank her cabinet and reshuffled ministers on Friday to bolster alliances within her coalition government and lessen the risk of impeachment sought by opponents.
Rousseff named former defence minister Jacques Wagner, a political heavyweight, as her chief of staff and put one additional cabinet post, the health ministry, under control of the PMDB, a centre-right party that is her main coalition ally and now controls 7 of the government's 31 ministries.
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