(1946, 2 months); José Maria Camargo (1946, 4 months); Adolfo Mário de Oliveira (1946, 4 months) and José Meira Júnior (1947). Fernandinho disputed the elections and was elected, being its mandate from 1948 to 1951. At its side appeared the first Chamber of Aldermen, formed by the masters: Anselmo Luiz Cantuária Cornelio Fernandes de Araújo David de Almeida Leitão Yards Resende Boechat José Secundino da Fonseca Pedro Cirilo de Paula José Romero Duque José Gomes Vieira José de Sousa Ferreira Sebastião Coelho Bastos Waldir Pereira da Silva Limerick Calders Horsth Since then, the following mayors have also ruled the municipality: José Romero Duque (1951/1955) Domingos Jorio Filho (1955/1959) José Romero Duque (1959/1963) Waldir Pereira da Silva (1963/1967) José Monteiro da Gama Neto (1967/1971) (With the resignation of José Monteiro on June 2, 1969, Mayor Ermano Batista Filho assumed the position of Mayor) Adrião Baia (1971/1973) Ermano Batista Filho (1973/1977) Adrião Baia (1977/1983) Joel Garcia dos Santos (1983/1987) Fernando Sathler Mol (1988/1992) Joel Garcia dos Santos (1993/1996) Vicente de Paula Marinho (1997/2000) - (2001/2004) Cláudio de Paula Batista (2005/2008) Maurício Toledo Jacob (2009/2012) Wanderson Elizeu Coelho (2013/2016) João Rufino nephew (2017/2020) Current Nowadays, the Municipality of Mantena, in spite of its distance from its capital, has been fighting against any stagnation, diversifying its economy, standing out from large textile companies such as Rabbit and granite mining companies, which are exported throughout the country. activities such as cattle raising and milk production also generate revenues and strengthen local trade. The municipality of Mantena also has a Department of Industry and Commerce to support new entrepreneurs who are interested in planting their companies in the region. Transport The city has mostly paved streets and avenues, it does not have municipal bus service, which has already been tried because the idea was a failure, some point out that the reason was the majority of the population already have means of self-transport such as cars, motorcycles and bicycles and did not adapt to the buses that traveled through the main streets of the city, has taxi points for private transport and a bus terminal built in the 80s, with a large area for buses with six platforms for boarding and disembarking passengers being the largest terminal in the microregion of mangrove, but needs reforms and investments in bus lines to increase the flow of people and the municipal collection. The bus terminal has daily lines