Aloysio Nunes Ferreira Filho (born 5 April 1945) is a Brazilian lawyer and politician. A member of

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, Nunes was a senator from

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from 2011 to 2017, and was Brazil's

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from 2017 to 2019.

Biography

Aloysio Nunes attended the University of São Paulo Law School in the 1960s when he got involved into politics, associated with the

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. During the military dictatorship he participated in protest robberies and mugging. Later he was exiled in

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. In 1979 he was able to return to Brazilian soil due to the Amnesty Law, that pardoned the oppositionist political militants. He de-affiliated from the

and joined the

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. In 1982 he was elected deputy in

. The dictatorship ended in 1985.

Political career

Sec Pompeo shakes hands with Aloysio Nunes

In 1990 he was elected vice governor of

. He governed the state in a few occasions, when the governor was travelling or in each case, absent. He was candidate for mayor of the city of

in 1992, but lost to

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. He was elected federal deputy in 1994. In 1997 he left the party and joined the Brazilian Social Democracy Party. He was a special aide to president

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and later his minister of justice. He worked in the governments of

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in the

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and the

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of São Paulo. In 2010 he was elected the senator with the highest number of votes in the history of

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, with astonishing 11.189.168 votes (30.4%). He was the candidate to the vice presidency in the 2014 presidential elections in

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's ticket. Together they had obtained slightly more than 51 million votes, however they lost the elections by a slight margin to

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, from the Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT).

References

Biography of Aloysio Nunes

Aloysio Nunes official website

Senate profile of Aloysio Nunes
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Biography

Political career

See also

References