João Doria Júnior

João Doria at a PSDB event.

João Agripino da Costa Doria Junior , called João Doria (born December 16, 1957 in São Paulo ) is a Brazilian entrepreneur and politician and was Mayor of São Paulo from January 1, 2017 to April 6, 2018. He has been the 37th governor of the state of São Paulo since January 1, 2019 .

Career

Doria studied psychology in Paris and Sussex . In 1992 he founded Grupo Doria, a communication and marketing company. In the local elections in October 2016 , Doria ran for the political center-based Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB) for the post of prefect (mayor) of São Paulo, the largest city in Brazil . With 53.3% of the vote, he was able to prevail in the first ballot. Since January 1st, 2017 he has been acting mayor of São Paulo. He succeeded Fernando Haddad from the Workers' Party (PT).

In April 2018, he resigned as mayor of São Paulo in order to then run for the post of governor of the state of São Paulo, which he achieved in the first round of elections on October 7, 2018 with 6,431,555 or 31.77% of the valid votes.

From April 6, 2018, Bruno Covas , who is also a member of the PSDB, was succeeded as city prefect .

See also

• List of mayors of the city of São Paulo

Web links

Commons : João Doria Júnior  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website João Doria Júnior

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CPDOC - Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação História Contemporânea do Brasil: João Agripino de Costa Doria. Retrieved September 16, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
2. ↑ Grupo Doria. Retrieved December 27, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
3. ↑ The new Fischer world almanac . Fischer, ISBN 978-3-596-72918-0 , pp. 68 .
4. ↑ João Doria 45. In: Eleições 2018. Retrieved on October 16, 2019 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
Fernando Haddad	52nd Prefect of São Paulo from January 1, 2017 to April 6, 2018	Bruno Covas