Aloízio Mercadante

Aloizio Mercadante
Minister of Education of Brazil
Incumbent
Assumed office 24 January 2012
Preceded by	Fernando Haddad
Personal details
Born	( 1954 -05-13) 13 May 1954 (age 57) Santos, Brazil
Political party	Workers' Party

Aloízio Mercadante Oliva (born in Santos, São Paulo on 13 May 1954) is an economist and Brazilian politician.^[1] He was a founder of the Workers' Party in February 1980 and vice chairman of the party between 1991 and 1999. Was state senator from São Paulo between 2003 and 2010. From 2011 to 2012 was Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation in Brazil, and in 2012 became Minister of Education, due to the departure of Fernando Haddad to run for mayor of São Paulo.

Biography

Son of Army General and former commander of ESG (War College), graduated in economics from the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of São Paulo (FEA-USP), in which, during their studies, stressed- to being president of the Academic Athletic Association student organizations Viscount of Cairo and Academic Center Viscount of Cairo. Master's in economics from the University of Campinas (Unicamp), and licensed teacher at the Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). Recently, he defended his doctoral thesis at the Institute of Economics at Unicamp.

Mercadante was national vice president of the PT and secretary of international relations, and member of the National Directorate and the National Executive. He participated in the drafting of government programs of the PT and was coordinator of the presidential campaign of the party in the elections of 1989 and 2002. He ran for vice-president of the Republic on the plate of Lula in the 1994 elections. In his first race for a seat as a federal deputy in 1990, was elected as the most voted PT. In the House, stood out in two important Parliamentary Committees of Inquiry (CPI): the PC Farias and Budget. In the campaign of 1994, Mercadante has waived a probable re-election to the House of Representatives and ran for vice president on the ticket of Lula.

In 1996 he coordinated the government program of the PT and was a candidate for deputy mayor of St. Paul in the plate Luiza Erundina. It was a protagonist in the national economic debate, attending lectures and publishing articles proposing an alternative model of development. This period resulted in the launch of the book "The Post-Real Brazil", organized by Mercadante. In 1998, Mercadante returned to the Chamber of Deputies and the third most voted member of the country - 241,559 votes. In his second term, attended several specialized committees in the economic, financial and tax. Chaired the Committee of Economy, Trade and Industry (1999), was leader of the PT's Bench (2000) and member of committees on Foreign Relations and National Defence and Finance and Taxation (2001). When running for a Senate seat in 2002, Mercadante received the highest vote in the history of the country - 10,497,348, a record surpassed by Aloysio Nunes, PSDB, who won 11,182,669 votes in the 2010 elections. In the Senate, held the leadership of the government until June 2006.

In 2006 he was candidate for governor of São Paulo by the PT, when we got the most votes in the state party - 6,771,582 votes. That same year, launched the book: "Brazil - First Time", a comparative analysis of the Lula government. From 2007 to 2008, he chaired the Economic Affairs Commission (EAC) of the Senate.

During the impeachment of Senator Renan Calheiros (PMDB-AL) defended the junction of all the accusations against Calheiros, for the processes to be tried at once, in open session. In his speech, he defended his position: "My vote was not a failure, as some have said. It was a transparent vote, who believes that the judgment on the merits is made based on the completion of the process".

In January 2009, was elected leader of the PT in the Senate. On August 20, 2009, announced he would resign because of his party's decision to close the opening of investigation by the Ethics Committee against the President of the Senate, José Sarney.^[2] The next day, however, in a speech in the Senate, after a long night talks with President Lula said that - against the wishes of his family - accepted the request of the president to continue in leadership.

In 2010, he ran as a candidate for governor of São Paulo by the PT, which, however, defeated in the first round by Alckmin. Was invited to join the government of President Rousseff to take the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation in 2011. On January 18, 2012, was invited to assume the Ministry of Education, because the output of the current Minister Fernando Haddad, to run for mayor of Sao Paulo.^[3]

References

See also

• List of Senators of São Paulo

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