constituency predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place vicegovernor party office birth_date term_start spouse image article_title term_end name occupation
são paulo luiz antônio fleury party founded francisco altino lima geraldo alckmin franco montoro jânio quadros 6 march 2001 santos , brazil são paulo , brazil geraldo alckmin psdb 30th senate president of the brazilian social democracy party mayor of governor são paulo of são paulo member of the federal 21 april 1930 1 1983 january 1995 1 february 1987 1988 11 may lila covas mário covas.jpg mário covas
 6 1986 march 2001 1 january 1995 1989 1 january mário covas civil engineer
mário covas

mário covas júnior -lrb- or ; 21 april 1930 -- march 2001 -rrb- was a brazilian politician .
covas studied engineering at the polytechnic school of the university of são paulo .
he entered politics in his native city of santos , in the state of são paulo .
he was elected federal representative , mayor of são paulo city -lrb- 1983 -- 1985 -rrb- , senator and twice governor of the state of são paulo -lrb- 1994 -- 1998 and 1998 -- 2001 -rrb- .
he was a founder and member of pmdb -lrb- party of the brazilian democratic movement -rrb- and later psdb -lrb- brazilian social democracy party -rrb- .
in 1989 , he was the psdb presidential candidate , receiving 11 % of the votes .
in the run-off of that election , he supported , like his party , luís inácio lula da silva .
he took a medical leave of absence on 22 january 2001 , due to bladder cancer found during an operation to remove a prostate tumor .
he died later the same year .
his successor was his deputy , geraldo alckmin .
