1. Bruno Covas Lopes was a Brazilian lawyer, economist, and politician who was a member of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party and served as the mayor of Sao Paulo from 2018 until his death in 2021.
36 Facts About Bruno Covas
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In October 2016, Bruno Covas was elected deputy mayor of Sao Paulo, as the running mate of PSDB mayoral candidate Joao Doria.
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In early April 2018, Bruno Covas took office as mayor after Joao Doria resigned to run for the state governorship in the 2018 general elections.
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Bruno Covas was diagnosed with gastrointestinal cancer in October 2019, in the form of an adenocarcinoma, but continued to serve as mayor while receiving chemotherapy.
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In November 2020, his disease had stabilised, and Bruno Covas was elected as mayor, beating Socialism and Liberty Party candidate Guilherme Boulos.
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In May 2021, Bruno Covas was admitted to Hospital Sirio-Libanes after his cancer had spread to his liver and bones, and he requested an administrative leave of office for 30 days.
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Bruno Covas died on 16 May 2021, becoming the first mayor of Sao Paulo to die in office.
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Bruno Covas Lopes was born on in Santos, a beach town near the city of Sao Paulo, to Renata Covas Lopes and Pedro Lopes.
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Mario Bruno Covas had been the PSDB presidential candidate in 1989, was widely considered the likely PSDB presidential candidate for 2002, and had been a close ally of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
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In 1995, Bruno Covas moved to Sao Paulo to study at the Bandeirantes School, and lived with his grandfather at the Palacio dos Bandeirantes while the latter was serving as state governor.
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Bruno Covas earned a law degree from the University of Sao Paulo in 2002 and a degree in economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo in 2005.
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At the age of 18, Bruno Covas formally joined the PSDB in 1998.
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Bruno Covas held various positions in PSDB Youth, the party's youth organization, being elected as its first secretary in 1999, state president in 2003, and national president in 2007.
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Bruno Covas served as the organization's national president from 2007 to 2011.
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Bruno Covas began his public political career in 2004, when he ran on the PSDB ticket for deputy mayor of Santos along with mayoral candidate Raul Christiano.
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Bruno Covas was president of the Committee of Finances and Budget of the first biennium.
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Bruno Covas was part of the Committees of Human Rights and Defense of Consumer Rights and was president of the Parliamentary Front of the Luso-Brazilian Community and Coordinator of the Front DST-Aids.
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Bruno Covas was the rapporteur for more than 180 bills, including the state budget for two consecutive years and the Nota Fiscal Paulista, which decreased the tax burden and gave back taxes directly to citizens.
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Bruno Covas was president of the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry of the Central Office of Collection and Distribution, rapporteur of the CPI of the Housing and Urban Development Company, and member of the CPI of the Housing Cooperative Bank.
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In 2011, Bruno Covas was appointed to the office as State Secretary of the Environment in the new government of Geraldo Alckmin, and vacated his position as State Deputy to assume the secretarial office.
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Bruno Covas was elected a federal deputy in 2014 for the 55th Legislature.
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Bruno Covas voted "Yes" for opening the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff.
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In 2015, Bruno Covas was a sub-rapporteur of the CPI of Petrobras and a member of the special committee reviewing the age of criminal responsibility.
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Bruno Covas was elected deputy mayor of Sao Paulo in the first round of the 2016 mayoral election, alongside winning mayoral candidate Joao Doria.
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On 19 October 2019, Bruno Covas was taken to the emergency department at the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein with a rash on his leg and was prescribed antibiotics.
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From October through February 2020, Bruno Covas received chemotherapy with complete remission of the primary tumor, but the lymph node metastases persisted; he then began a course of immunotherapy.
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Bruno Covas self-isolated at City Hall for two weeks and recovered uneventfully.
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Bruno Covas declined to take leave of office and was discharged twelve days later on.
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On 2 May 2021, Bruno Covas was readmitted to the hospital and announced his taking leave of office, with Deputy Mayor Ricardo Nunes acting as mayor in his absence.
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Bruno Covas was extubated the same day after the bleeding was stopped, and transferred out of the ICU the next day.
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Bruno Covas died on 16 May 2021 at 08:20 BRT of gastrointestinal cancer, aged 41, at Hospital Sirio-Libanes in Sao Paulo.
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Bruno Covas was buried in Paqueta Cemetery in Santos later that day.
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Bruno Covas married Karen Ichiba, a friend from college, in 2004.
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In 2017, while he was deputy mayor, Bruno Covas underwent a radical change of appearance.
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Bruno Covas stopped wearing his usual jacket and tie, shaved his head, and grew a beard.
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In 2020, during the pandemic, Bruno Covas lived at city hall for over two months in order to continue working while the state was under lockdown.