18-466: Mercadante is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Aloizio Mercadante (born 1954), Brazilian economist and politician Saverio Mercadante (1795–1870), Italian opera composer [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Mercadante . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding
36-554: A Senate seat in 2002, Mercadante received the second-highest vote in the history of Brazilian elections – 10,497,348, a record only surpassed by Aloysio Nunes, from the PSDB, who won 11,182,669 votes in the 2010 elections. In the Senate, he held the leadership of the government caucus until June 2006. In 2006 he was a candidate for governor of São Paulo by the PT when he got the most votes within
54-521: A person under investigation could not be in the line of succession for the presidency. However the Supreme Court decided 7 December 2016 that Renan could remain senate president, without being in the succession. On 25 May 2007, Veja magazine accused Calheiros of accepting funds from a construction industry lobbyist , to pay child support for a child from a previous extramarital affair with broadcast journalist Mônica Veloso. In trying to justify
72-799: Is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the Chief of Staff of Brazil between 2014 and 2015. He was a founder of the Workers' Party in February 1980 and vice-chairman of the party between 1991 and 1999, then state senator from São Paulo between 2003 and 2010. From 2011 to 2012 he was Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation in Brazil, and in 2012 he became Minister of Education, due to Fernando Haddad 's departure to run for mayor of São Paulo . The son of an Army general and former commander of ESG (War College), he graduated in economics from
90-695: Is a Brazilian politician and former President of the Federal Senate of Brazil. He has represented the state of Alagoas in the senate as a member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement . since 1 February 1995. Renan's presidency of the Brazilian Senate, a term that started 1 February 2013, was revoked on 5 December 2016 by a minister of the Brazilian Supreme Court, Marco Aurélio Mello , who said that
108-491: The Supreme Federal Court (Federal Supreme Court) to remove Calheiros from the presidency because he became defendant of embezzlement (peculation in the penal code) . The Senate maneuvered so that the justice official could not handle the judicial notice and Calheiros refused to sign it. The biggest implicated company, Odebrecht kept an entire department to coordinate the payment of bribes to politicians. In
126-727: The University of São Paulo (FEA-USP). He holds a PhD and a master's degree in economics from the University of Campinas (Unicamp), and is a professor of economics at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). Mercadante was national vice president of the PT and secretary of international relations and member of the National Directorate and the National Executive. He participated in drafting PT government programs and
144-593: The Chamber of Deputies with the third most votes in the legislative body with 241,559 votes. In his second term, he attended several specialized committees on the economy, finances and the tax system. He chaired the Committee on the Economy, Trade and Industry (1999), was the leader of the PT's Bench (2000) and member of committees on Foreign Relations and National Defence and Finance and Taxation (2001). When running for
162-508: The House of Representatives and ran for vice president under Lula. In 1996 he coordinated the government program of the PT and was a candidate for deputy mayor of São Paulo on Luiza Erundina 's ticket. He was a protagonist in the national economic debate, attending lectures and publishing articles proposing an alternative model of development. This period resulted in the launch of the book "The Post-Real Brazil". In 1998, Mercadante returned to
180-418: The Senate. In his speech, he argued: "My vote was not a failure, as some have said. It was a transparent vote, of someone who believes that the correct judgment on the merits of the question can only be made based on the complete judicial process". In January 2009, Mercadante was elected leader of the PT caucus in the Senate. On 20 August 2009, he announced his resignation from the leadership position because of
198-481: The origin of the funds, subsequent investigations into Calheiros' business dealings led to other revelations of income tax fraud and the use of a proxy to buy a stake in a radio station. Calheiros was subject to a disciplinary inquiry by the senate's ethics committee on four different counts. On 12 September 2007, the senate voted by secret ballot against impeaching Calheiros on the lobbyist funds accusation. He still faces three separate inquiries on other charges. After
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#1732782407126216-639: The party's decision to support closing the investigation by the Ethics Committee against the President of the Senate, José Sarney . The next day, however, in a speech in the Senate, after a long night of talks with President Lula, he announced that – against the wishes of his family – he had accepted the request of the president that he continue as the Party's leader in the chamber. In 2010, he ran as PT's candidate for governor of São Paulo: however, he
234-494: The person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mercadante&oldid=1166410951 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Monitored short pages Aloizio Mercadante Aloizio Mercadante Oliva (born 13 May 1954 in Santos, São Paulo )
252-691: The senate committees. Calheiros worked for both the Fernando Collor de Mello and Fernando Henrique Cardoso governments. On 1 February 2013, he was again elected president of the Brazilian Senate. Due to the accusations mentioned above, many Brazilians became upset about his election and some started an online petition demanding Renan's impeachment. As of February 2013, it had been signed by more than 1.6 million Brazilians. The Senate board ( João Alberto , Sérgio Petecão , Zezé Perrella , Romero Jucá , Gladson Cameli , Vicentinho Alves ) together with Renan Calheiros refused to obey an order from
270-555: The state party internal elections- 6,771,582 votes. That he published a book: "Brazil – First Time", an analysis of the Lula government as the first socialist government of Brazil. From 2007 to 2008, he chaired the Economic Affairs Commission (EAC) of the Senate. During the impeachment of Senator Renan Calheiros (PMDB-AL), Mercadante advocated combining all the accusations into a single trial, in an open session in
288-414: The vote public outrage forced congress to eliminate secret ballot voting for ethics violations, meaning Calheiros' three other inquiries, if approved by the ethics committee, will be subject to an open ballot vote in the senate floor. On 11 October 2007, Calheiros stepped down as president of the senate, taking a 45-day leave of absence from the position. The ethics inquiries continued to progress through
306-639: Was coordinator of the party's presidential campaigns in 1989 and 2002. He ran for vice-president of the Republic on Lula's ticket in the 1994 elections. In his first race for a seat as a federal deputy in 1990, he was elected with more votes than any other deputy in the Brazilian congress. In the House, he stood out in two important Parliamentary Committees of Inquiry (CPI): the PC Farias and Budget. In 1994, Mercadante waived probable re-election to his seat in
324-553: Was defeated in the first round by Geraldo Alckmin . Mercadante was invited to join the cabinet of President Dilma Rousseff as Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation in 2011. On 18 January 2012, he was invited to assume the Ministry of Education due to the departure of the prior minister, Fernando Haddad , to run for mayor of São Paulo. Renan Calheiros José Renan Vasconcelos Calheiros ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ʁeˈnɐ̃ kaˈʎejɾus] ; born 16 September 1955)
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