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Bruno Covas (Bruno Covas Lopes) was born on 7 April, 1980 in Santos, São Paulo, Brazil, is a Former mayor of São Paulo, Brazil. Discover Bruno Covas's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 41 years old?
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Bruno Covas Lopes |
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41 years old |
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Aries |
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7 April, 1980 |
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7 April |
Birthplace |
Santos, São Paulo, Brazil |
Date of death |
16 May, 2021 |
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São Paulo, Brazil |
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Brazil
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Bruno Covas Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Bruno Covas's Wife?
His wife is Karen Ichiba (m. 2004-2014)
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Karen Ichiba (m. 2004-2014) |
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Tomás (b. 2005) |
Bruno Covas Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Bruno Covas worth at the age of 41 years old? Bruno Covas’s income source is mostly from being a successful Former. He is from Brazil. We have estimated Bruno Covas's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Bruno Covas Lopes (7 April 1980 – 16 May 2021) was a Brazilian lawyer, economist, and politician who was a member of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) and served as the mayor of São Paulo from 2018 until his death in 2021.
Covas was the grandson of former São Paulo state governor Mário Covas.
Before becoming mayor, Bruno Covas had served as national president of PSDB Youth and São Paulo state secretary for the environment.
Bruno Covas Lopes was born on 1980.04.07 in Santos, a beach town near the city of São Paulo, to Renata Covas Lopes and Pedro Lopes.
His maternal grandfather, Mário Covas, was one of seven founders of the PSDB in 1988, and had served as governor of the state of São Paulo from 1995 until his death in 2001 due to bladder cancer.
Mário Covas had been the PSDB presidential candidate in 1989, was widely considered the likely PSDB presidential candidate for 2002, and had also been a close ally of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
During his childhood, Bruno Covas attended the Carmo and Lusíadas schools in Santos, and accompanied his grandfather on trips to Brasília, the federal capital, when the elder Covas served as a senator.
In 1995, Covas moved to São Paulo to study at the Bandeirantes School, and lived with his grandfather at the Palácio dos Bandeirantes while the latter was serving as state governor.
At the age of 18, Covas formally joined the PSDB in 1998.
He held various positions in PSDB Youth, the party's youth organization, being elected as its first secretary in 1999, state president in 2003, and national president in 2007.
Covas earned a law degree from the University of São Paulo (USP) in 2002 and a degree in economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP) in 2005.
Bruno Covas began his public political career in 2004, when he ran on the PSDB ticket for vice mayor of Santos along with mayoral candidate Raul Christiano.
Christiano had originally extended the invitation to Bruno's mother Renata Covas, but she told Christiano to ask Bruno, as he was the family politician.
Their ticket placed fourth during the first round of the election, garnering 28,012 votes, or 11.52% of the total.
In 2005 and 2006, he was a legislative aide to the leadership of Geraldo Alckmin's government in the Legislative Assembly.
In 2006, he ran for State Deputy and was elected with 122,312 votes, one of the highest in that election.
He served as the organization's national president from 2007 to 2011.
Conscious Vote Movement considered Covas the most active deputy of the 16th Legislature from 2007 to 2010.
Covas was president of the Committee of Finances and Budget of the first biennium (2007–2008).
He also was part of the Committees of Human Rights and Defense of Consumer Rights and was president of the Parliamentary Front of the Luso-Brazilian Community and Coordinator of the Front DST-Aids.
Covas was the rapporteur for more than 180 bills, including the state budget for two consecutive years (2009 and 2010) and the Nota Fiscal Paulista, which decreased the tax burden and gave back taxes directly to citizens.
He was president of the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry (CPI) of the Central Office of Collection and Distribution (ECAD), rapporteur of the CPI of the Companhia de Desenvolvimento Habitacional e Urbano (CDHU), and member of the CPI of the Housing Cooperative Bank (BANCOOP).
In the 2010 election, Covas was re-elected State Deputy with 239,150 votes, the highest number received by any São Paulo State Assembly candidate that year, drawing 131,000 votes from the capital alone.
In 2011, Covas was appointed to the office as State Secretary of the Environment in the new government of Geraldo Alckmin, and vacated his position as State Deputy to assume the secretarial office.
Bruno Covas was elected a federal deputy in 2014 for the 55th Legislature (2015–2019).
He voted "Yes" for opening the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff.
While in the government of President Michel Temer, he voted "Yes" on Public Spending Ceiling Bill.
In 2015, Covas was a sub-rapporteur of the CPI of Petrobras and a member of the special committee reviewing the age of criminal responsibility.
In October 2016, Covas was elected vice mayor of São Paulo, as the running mate of PSDB mayoral candidate João Doria.
Covas was elected vice mayor of São Paulo in the first round of the 2016 mayoral election, alongside winning mayoral candidate João Doria.
To assume the vice mayoralty, Covas resigned from his position as federal deputy.
In early April 2018, Covas took office as mayor after João Doria resigned to run for the state governorship in the 2018 general elections.
On 2018.04.07, his 38th birthday, Covas assumed the mayoralty after Doria left the office to run for the governorship.
Covas was diagnosed with gastrointestinal cancer in October 2019, in the form of an adenocarcinoma, but continued to serve as mayor while receiving chemotherapy.
In November 2020, his disease had stabilised, and Covas was elected as mayor, beating Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL) candidate Guilherme Boulos.
In May 2021, Covas was admitted to Hospital Sírio-Libanês after his cancer had spread to his liver and bones, and he requested an administrative leave of office for 30 days.
He died on 16 May 2021, becoming the first mayor of São Paulo to die in office.
Campaigning as a centrist in a divided city, Covas was elected mayor in the 2020 mayoral election, alongside vice mayoral candidate Ricardo Nunes of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB).
The ticket received 1,754,013 votes in the first round, winning each of the city's 58 electoral zones and advancing to the runoff in a 13-candidate field.
In the second round, Covas obtained 3,169,121 votes (59.38%), beating PSOL candidate Guilherme Boulos by just over 1 million votes.