1. Ciro Gomes is currently affiliated with and vice-president of the Democratic Labour Party.
32 Facts About Ciro Gomes
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Ciro Gomes was elected Mayor of Fortaleza aged 30 in 1988 and was elected Governor of Ceara at the age of 32 in 1990.
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Ciro Gomes's success led to his appointment as Minister of Finance for a few months in late 1994 under President Itamar Franco, where he presided over the ongoing Real Plan that eventually stabilized the economy and ended hyperinflation.
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Ciro Gomes ran for President of Brazil for the Popular Socialist Party in 1998 and 2002, coming in third and fourth place.
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In both Ciro Gomes presented himself as critical of Fernando Henrique Cardoso presidency and attempted to be a centre-left alternative to petista candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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Ciro Gomes was expected to succeed Lula for the 2010 election, but Lula instead appointed Energy Minister Dilma Rousseff, a move he criticized.
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Ciro Gomes coordinated her successful presidential campaigns, but afterwards retired to the private sector.
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In 2018, Ciro Gomes returned to politics after joining the Democratic Labour Party, launching his long-awaited third campaign for the presidency.
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Ciro Gomes refused to endorse Haddad afterwards, PT's offer to be his running mate, and has opposed Lula's party within the Brazilian left.
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Ciro Gomes was one of the main opposers of Jair Bolsonaro's presidency, accusing Bolsonaro and his sons of criminal militia involvement.
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Ciro Gomes was critical of Michel Temer's presidency, characterizing Dilma's impeachment as a coup.
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Ciro Gomes has been critical of Lula's presidency, accusing him of enabling Dilma's impeachment through Temer and Eduardo Cunha's appointments, and both of leading a social liberal government that led to the current Brazilian recession and Bolsonaro's election.
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Since joining PDT in 2015, Ciro Gomes has led a resurgence of PT's traditional left-wing nationalist opposition by PDT and the legacy of Getulio Vargas and Leonel Brizola, receiving accusations of being a left-wing populist.
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Ciro Gomes enrolled in the Law School of the Federal University of Ceara in 1976.
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Ciro Gomes later recalled that within the student movements of the time, he was most closely affiliated with the Catholic Left.
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Ciro Gomes ran for office for the first time in 1982, as a State Deputy representing Sobral, and won; he began his first term in February 1983.
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In 1985, Ciro Gomes started teaching tax law as a professor at the University of Fortaleza.
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In 1988, Ciro Gomes was elected Mayor of Fortaleza, the capital of Ceara, and began his term the next year.
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Ciro Gomes was elected the Governor of Ceara in 1990, at the age of 32, becoming the second youngest governor in the country at the time.
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Ciro Gomes's efforts included policies to support small businesses and reduce bureaucracy.
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Ciro Gomes cracked down on tax evasion, increasing state revenue.
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Ciro Gomes would join the Socialist People's Party in opposition to the Cardoso administration, and ran as a member of the party for president in 1998 with Roberto Freire as his running mate.
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Ciro Gomes supported Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the second round of the 2002 election, and was ultimately chosen to be the Minister for National Integration in Lula's new government.
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Ciro Gomes has been publicly critical of the efforts to impeach Dilma Rousseff and prosecute Lula.
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Political analysts had widely speculated that, since Lula was legally barred from running for president, Ciro Gomes would attract many of Lula's supporters in the 2018 presidential election, and potentially unite a number of left and center-left political parties.
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Polling showed that Ciro Gomes would have performed better versus Bolsonaro in the second round than Haddad would have.
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Ciro Gomes ran for president for the fourth time in the 2022 presidential election, finishing in fourth place.
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Ciro Gomes has lived in Ceara for most of his life, graduating with a degree in law from the Federal University of Ceara.
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Ciro Gomes was a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School.
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Ciro Gomes was married to his first wife, politician Patricia Saboya, from 1983 to 1999, with whom he has three children: Livia, Ciro and Yuri.
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From 1999 to 2011, Ciro Gomes was married to Brazilian actress Patricia Pillar.
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Ciro Gomes is the godfather of his advisor Roberto Mangabeira Unger's eldest child, Gabriel.