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Mário Covas Júnior (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈmarju ˈkɔvɐs]; 21 April 1930 – 6 March 2001) was a Brazilian politician.
Covas studied engineering at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo. He entered politics in his native city of Santos, in the state of São Paulo.
He was elected federal representative, mayor of São Paulo City (1983–1985), senator and twice Governor of the state of São Paulo (1994-1998/1998-2001). He was a founder and member of PMDB (Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement) and later PSDB (Brazilian Social Democracy Party). In 1989, he was the PSDB presidential candidate, receiving 11% of the votes. In the run-off of that election, he supported, like his party, Luís Inácio Lula da Silva.
He took a medical leave of absence on 22 January 2001, due to bladder cancer found during an operation to remove a prostate tumor [1]. He died later the same year. His successor was his deputy, Geraldo Alckmin.
Actors: Tonico Pereira (actor), Monique Lafond (actress), Roberto Tibiriçá (producer), Adélia Sampaio (writer), Maurício Branco (actor), Paulo Markun (writer), Paulo Markun (director), Almir Martins (actor), Matias Capovilla (composer), Márcio Moreira Alves (actor), Jarbas Passarinho (actor), João Vieittas (actor), Isabel Hahn (producer), Alejandra Hope (producer), Marcelo Aith (producer),
Plot: Documentary about a political episode during the Brazilian military dictatorship, which resulted in the issue of the Institutional Act #5 (AI-5), abolishing freedom of opinion in Brazil, and marking the transition to the toughest period of violation of human rights in the country. The episode was the Congress Assembly on December 12th, 1968, in which its members denied permission to punish congressman Márcio Moreira Alves, as was the Government's wish.
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