Rui Costa Pimenta

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Rui Costa Pimenta
Pimenta in 2014
National President of PCO
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 December 1995
Preceded by	Created office
Personal details
Born	Rui Costa Pimenta (1957-06-25) 25 June 1957 (age 67) São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Political party	PCO (1995–present) PT (1980–1995)
Spouse	Anaí Caproni ​ (m. 1995)​

Rui Costa Pimenta (born in São Paulo, 25 June 1957) is a Brazilian politician and a perennial presidential candidate aligned with the Trotskyist Workers' Cause Party (Portuguese: Partido da Causa Operária).

He was their candidate in the 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014 presidential elections and placed last in all of the elections he ran.^[1]