José Serra

José Serra (2010)

Results of the 2nd round of the 2010 presidential election by states won

José Serra (born March 19, 1942 in São Paulo ) is a Brazilian politician . From May 12, 2016 to February 22, 2017, he was Foreign Minister in the interim government of Michel Temer .

life and career

Serra was born the son of an Italian immigrant from Corigliano Calabro ( Calabria ) in Mooca (Mooca sub-prefecture of the city of São Paulo). He began his political career while studying civil engineering at the University of São Paulo . In 1962 he was co-founder of the socio-political movement Ação Popular, 1963 President of the União Nacional de Estudantes (General Association of Brazilian Student Unions). During the military dictatorship in Brazil, he spent many years in exile after 1964, initially in Bolivia and France, and from 1965 to 1973 in Chile, where he was temporarily advisor to President Salvador Allende . After the coup d'état there, he went into exile in the United States from 1974 to 1978 . After Brazil's return to democracy, he was elected MP for the Brazilian Democratic Movement (PMDB) party in 1986 . In 1990 he was re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies, this time for the Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB), which he founded in 1988.

Serra was elected Senator of the State of São Paulo for the PSDB in 1994 and served as Minister of Planning under President Fernando Henrique Cardoso from 1995 to 1996 . From 1998 to 2002 he was Minister of Health. In 2002 he ran for the presidency of his party to succeed his party friend Cardoso, who was not allowed to run again after two terms in office. He reached the runoff election, but lost there significantly with 38.7 to 61.3 percent against Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva .

In 2004 he was elected mayor of São Paulo. On March 31, 2006, he resigned and ran for the office of governor of the state of São Paulo . In the first ballot on October 1, 2006, Serra obtained an absolute majority. In the 2010 gubernatorial election he did not run again because of his presidential candidacy. Geraldo Alckmin was elected as his successor .

For the 2010 presidential election he ran again for the PSDB. A year before the election he was clearly leading in the polls, in June and July 2010 he was still tied with his most promising opponent Dilma Rousseff from the Partido dos Trabalhadores . Then he fell back significantly. In the first ballot on October 3, 2010, he finally reached 32.6 percent and entered the runoff election against Dilma Rousseff. In this he lost with about 44 percent of the valid votes.

In the 2014 Senate elections, he was re-elected to represent his home state São Paulo with 57.92 percent of the vote and took up his post as Senator on February 1, 2015. On February 22, 2017, Serra resigned from office for health reasons.

Web links

Commons : José Serra  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• José Serra website (Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ José Serra, Minister of Foreign Affairs , accessed on May 20, 2016.
2. ↑ On this movement see the article "Ação Popular (esquerda cristã)" on the Portuguese language Wikipedia
3. ^ Election results for José Serra . Retrieved November 20, 2015 (Portuguese).
4. ↑ Brazil's Foreign Minister Serra resigned. Der Standard , February 23, 2017, accessed on the same day.