Rodrigo Garcia (born 10 May 1974) is a Brazilian lawyer, businessman and politician, who was affiliated with the

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(PSDB). He was state deputy elected for three consecutive legislatures, 1999–2002, 2003–2006 and 2007–2010, and president of the Legislative Assembly of

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from 15 March 2005 to 15 March 2007. He had served as

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from April to December 2022.

Career

Born in

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, he left the position of deputy to head the Municipal Secretariat for Modernization, Management and Debureaucratization of the City Hall of São Paulo, from 2008 to 2010. In April 2010, he returned to the Legislative Assembly to continue his work as a state deputy for the Democrats. He was national vice president of

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and secretary general of the party in the State of São Paulo. In May 2011, he was invited by the governor of the

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, to assume the role of Secretary of State for Social Development. On May 28, 2013, again by the invitation of Governor

, he took over the role of Secretary of Economic Development, Science and Technology of the

, which later became the Secretary of Development of the

. On April 3, 2014, he left the command of the Secretariat to return to the Federal Chamber. In the 2014 elections for the 55th legislature (2015-2019), Rodrigo was the fifth most voted federal deputy in the

, obtaining 336,151 votes. On February 1, 2015, he took up his fifth term. Afterwards, on March 19, 2015, he resigned from the position to assume the Secretary of State for Housing in the new government of

. He voted in favor of impeaching

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. In the 2018 elections, he ran as vice governor on

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's ticket, for which he was elected in the second round. As Secretary of Government, Rodrigo Garcia coordinates all the strategic actions of the state:

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s, concessions, public investments, public-private partnerships and all the major management programs of the other secretariats. In the

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, Garcia tried to run as Governor of São Paulo for a full term, but he placed third and was eliminated in the first round, thus marking the end of the 28-year rule of the

in São Paulo. Garcia left office on 31 December 2022, being succeeded by eventual winner

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