Henrique Eduardo Alves, the minister of Tourism in Brazil, penned his resignation letter to President Dilma Rousseff this Monday, March 28, 2016.

Minister Alves is the first of a seven-member group of ministers belonging to the PMDB (Brazil's Democratic Movement Party) to announce resignation. This decision follows PMDB's official announcement that it will no longer be a part of Brazil's Federal Government - a coalition.

Rousseff and Lula's Attempt to Avoid Break of Coalition

Despite efforts by President Rousseff herself and former president Lula da Silva to convince the political party to avoid disbanding, Michel Temer, current Vice President of Brazil and president of the the PMDB, announced that the political party's decision was final and that the party would make their official announcement on Tuesday, March 29, 2016.

The PMDB also announced that the party had established an April 12-deadline for all public workers belonging to the party to renounce their position from the government.

Folha de Sao Paulo, Brazil's primary media outlet, reports that PMDB's decision comes about after popular acclaim for the political party to disband following the protests that have arisen in many regions in Brazil after corruption allegations within the PT (Worker's Party) and Dilma's controversial appointment of Lula as Chief of Staff after he was charged for money laundering.

Many Brazilians have been calling for the impeachment of embattled President Dilma Rousseff and it is yet to be seen how this political story unfolds.

Minister Alves' Penned Letter to President Rousseff

The following images shows Minister Alves' letter to Rousseff which is followed by an english transaltion.

English (paraphrasing)

Your Excellency President Dilma,

I hereby resign to my honorable position as Minister of Tourism of your Government and I would like to thank you for your trust and for the respectful relationship held mutually during these eleven months during which we worked together.

I thought hard before making this decision; considering the motives and challenges that encouraged me to assume this ministry (which I believe I have honored) and to make make Tourism an important economic, political and social agenda for the country's government.

However, independent from our intentions, [this] national moment puts the PMDB, my party for the past 46 years, before the greater challenge of choosing it's path under the presidency of my companion, Michel Temer.

Everyone - the Government that I assumed and the PMDB - knows that I always supported permanent dialogue, a dialogue - that I sadly admint - has been exahusted.

Thus, President Dilma, this is the decision that I make. I don't deny it is difficult but it is conscious, coherent, respectful to my Rio Grande do Norte and always - like everyone - in the fight for a better Brazil.

I am sure that being a woman who above all supports the ideological coherence and the loyalty of their own party that you will understand my decision.

Respectfully,

Henrique Eduardo Alves