Camilo Santana

Camilo Santana
Minister of Education
Assumed office
1 January 2023
PresidentLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Preceded byVictor Godoy
Governor of Ceará
In office
1 January 2015 – 2 April 2022
Vice GovernorIzolda Cela
Preceded byCid Gomes
Succeeded byIzolda Cela
State Deputy of Ceará
In office
1 January 2011 – 31 December 2014
ConstituencyAt-large
Personal details
Born
Camilo Sobreira de Santana

(1968-06-03) 3 June 1968 (age 56)
Crato, Ceará, Brazil
Political partyPT (2002–present)
Other political
affiliations
PSB (1990–2002)
Domestic partner
Onelia Leite
(m. 2010)
Children3
Alma materFederal University of Ceará (BSAg)
ProfessionAgricultural engineer
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Camilo Sobreira de Santana (born 3 June 1968) is a Brazilian agricultural engineer and politician, affiliated to the Workers' Party (PT). He has a bachelor's degree in agricultural engineering from the Federal University of Ceará and a master's degree in Development and Environment from the same university. As an undergraduate, he held the director function UFC Students of Central Directory. He was Secretary of Agrarian Development of the State of Ceará in the government of Cid Gomes, from 1 February 2007 to 31 December 2010, as well as Secretary of Cities in the same government.[1]

He was voted the most voted state deputy of Ceará in October 2010, with 131,171 votes. He was governor of the state of Ceará until 2 April 2022, when he resigned in order to run for Federal Senate.

  1. ^ "Camilo Santana deixa a secretaria das Cidades". O povo online (in Portuguese). 5 June 2012. Archived from the original on 8 September 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2015.