Tarcísio de Freitas

Tarcísio de Freitas
2019-06-11 Cerimônia de Comemoração do 154º Aniversário da Batalha Naval do Riachuelo e imposição das condecorações da Ordem do Mérito Naval (cropped).jpg
Tarcísio in 2019
Governor of São Paulo
Assumed office
1 January 2023
Vice GovernorFelicio Ramuth
Preceded byRodrigo Garcia
Minister of Infrastructure
In office
1 January 2019 – 31 March 2022
PresidentJair Bolsonaro
Preceded byValter Casimiro Silveira
Succeeded byMarcelo Sampaio
Director General of the National Department of Transport Infrastructure
In office
22 September 2014 – 16 January 2015
PresidentDilma Rousseff
Preceded byJorge Ernesto Pinto Fraxe
Succeeded byAdailton Cardoso Dias
Personal details
Born
Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas

(1975-06-19) 19 June 1975 (age 47)
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Political partyRepublicanos (2022–present)
Alma mater
Military service
Allegiance Brazil
Branch/serviceCoat of arms of the Brazilian Army.svg Brazilian Army
RankCapitão.png Captain

Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas (born 19 June 1975) is a Brazilian engineer and politician who is the governor of São Paulo. Tarcísio was Minister of Infrastructure of the Jair Bolsonaro administration, being nominated on 27 November 2018 and taking office on 1 January 2019. He resigned on 31 March 2022 in order to run for the 2022 São Paulo gubernatorial election. In the October 2022 run-off Tarcísio defeated PT candidate Fernando Haddad, becoming the first elected governor of São Paulo in 28 years to not be a PSDB member.

Biography

A government employee linked to the legislative consultancy body of the Chamber of Deputies, Gomes is a graduate of Agulhas Negras Military Academy and also graduated in engineering at the Military Institute of Engineering, where he scored the highest average grade in the institution.

Gomes served as engineer for the Brazilian Army, chief of the technical section of the Engineering Company of Brazil at United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), and auditing coordinator in the Transportation Division of the Comptroller General of Brazil (CGU).

In 2011, he was appointed executive director of the National Department of the Infrastructure of Transportation (DNIT) by General Jorge Fraxe, who led the office during the "ethical cleaning" ordered by then-president Dilma Rousseff, after a crisis caused by corruption allegations. He ascended to the directory-general in 2014.

In 2015, he acted as secretary of the Coordination of Projects of the Special Secretariat of the Program of Partnerships of Investments (PPI), responsible for the program of privatizations and concessions.

Personal life

Freitas is Roman Catholic.


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