Luiza Erundina

Luiza Erundina de Sousa (Portuguese pronunciation: [luˈizɐ ɛɾũˈdʒinɐ dʒi ˈsowzɐ]; November 30, 1934) is a Brazilian politician, born in Uiraúna, a small city in the interior of the Brazilian state of Paraíba.

Luiza Erundina
Erundina in 2016
Federal Deputy from São Paulo
Assumed office
1 February 1999
Secretary of the Federal Administration
In office
28 February 1993 – 20 May 1993
PresidentItamar Franco
Preceded byOsiris de Azevedo Lopes Filho
Succeeded byRomildo Canhim
Mayor of São Paulo
In office
1 January 1989 – 1 January 1993
Vice MayorLuiz Eduardo Greenhalgh
Preceded byJânio Quadros
Succeeded byPaulo Maluf
State Deputy of São Paulo
In office
15 March 1987 – 1 January 1989
City Councillor of São Paulo
In office
15 March 1983 – 15 March 1986
Personal details
Born (1934-11-30) 30 November 1934
Uiraúna, Paraíba, Brazil
Political partyPSOL (2016–present)
Other political
affiliations
  • PT (1980–93)
  • PSB (1993–2016)
Alma materFederal University of Paraíba
ProfessionSocial worker

Political history

From 1980 to 1997, she was affiliated with the PT party (Workers’ Party). In 1997, she changed to the PSB party. Due to disagreements within PSB that decided to support the impeachment process against president Dilma Rousseff, Erundina switched to party PSOL in March 2016.[1]

Erundina served on the São Paulo city council from 1983 to 1987. From 1987 to 1988 she was a state deputy for the state of São Paulo. She was São Paulo's mayor from 1989 to 1992, and is currently a federal deputy from São Paulo. She was re-elected in 2002 and again in 2006, in 2010, in 2014 and in 2018.

In the 2020 São Paulo mayoral election, Erundina ran as the vice mayoral candidate of Guilherme Boulos, also of PSOL.

Education

Erundina was born to a very poor family. Notwithstanding the obstacles, she managed to pursue a Bachelor's degree in Social Service from Federal University of Paraíba. She also holds a Master's degree in Sociology from University of São Paulo.

References
  1. "Erundina se filia ao PSOL, critica Dilma, mas é contra impeachment". O Globo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2016-03-14. Retrieved 2016-04-28.


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