Aloysio Nunes

Aloysio Nunes
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 7 March 2017 – 31 December 2018
President	Michel Temer
Preceded by	José Serra
Succeeded by	Ernesto Araújo
Senator for São Paulo
In office 1 February 2011 – 1 February 2019
Minister of Justice
In office 14 November 2001 – 3 April 2002
President	Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Preceded by	José Gregori
Succeeded by	Miguel Reale Júnior
Secretary-General of the Presidency
In office 3 August 1999 – 14 November 2001
President	Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Preceded by	Eduardo Graeff
Succeeded by	Arthur Virgílio Neto
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 1 February 1995 – 1 February 2007
Constituency	São Paulo
Vice Governor of São Paulo
In office 15 March 1991 – 31 December 1994
Governor	Luiz Antônio Fleury
Preceded by	Almino Afonso
Succeeded by	Geraldo Alckmin
Member of the Legislative Assembly of São Paulo
In office 15 March 1983 – 15 March 1991
Constituency	At-large
Personal details
Born	(1945-04-05) 5 April 1945 São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
Political party	PSDB (1997–present)
Other political affiliations	PCB (1963–1974) MDB (1974–1980) PMDB (1980–1997)
Spouse	Gisele Nu
Alma mater	University of São Paulo

Aloysio Nunes Ferreira Filho (born 5 April 1945) is a Brazilian lawyer and politician. A member of PSDB, Nunes was a senator from São Paulo from 2011 to 2017, and was Brazil's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2017 to 2018.

Biography

Aloysio Nunes attended the University of São Paulo Law School in the 1960s when he got involved into politics, associated with the Brazilian Communist Party. During the military dictatorship he participated in protest robberies and mugging. Later he was exiled in Paris, France.

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 Brazilian Communist Party and joined the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party. In 1982 he was elected deputy in São Paulo. The dictatorship ended in 1985.

Political career

Nunes meets with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on June 4, 2018.

In 1990 he was elected vice governor of São Paulo. 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 São Paulo in 1992, but lost to Paulo Maluf.

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 Fernando Henrique Cardoso and later his minister of justice.

He worked in the governments of José Serra in the city and the state of São Paulo.

In 2010 he was elected the senator with the highest number of votes in the history of Brazil, with astonishing 11.189.168 votes (30.4%).

He was the candidate to the vice presidency in the 2014 presidential elections in Aécio Neves's ticket. Together they had obtained slightly more than 51 million votes, however they lost the elections by a slight margin to Dilma Rousseff, from the Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT).

See also

• List of foreign ministers in 2017
• List of current foreign ministers

References

• Biography of Aloysio Nunes Archived 2017-03-18 at the Wayback Machine
• Aloysio Nunes official website
• Senate profile of Aloysio Nunes