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João de Deus Barbosa de Jesus

João de Deus Barbosa de Jesus was a Brazilian businessman and politician born in Salvador, Bahia.

João de Deus founded the Workers' Nationalist Party in 1990 and ran for federal deputy in that year's election, not getting elected.[1] After managing to get a candidate for state deputy elected in Ceará, the party ceased its activities in 1991 and was refounded in December as the Brazilian Workers' Nationalist Party.[2] The party contested the 1992 municipal elections and merged in 1993 with the Labour Party of Brazil (PTdoB).[3][4]

Affiliated with the PTdoB, João de Deus ran for president in the 1998 presidential election. In his electoral campaign, he proposed to fight unemployment; to transfer the Amazon River to Northeast Brazil, a region affected by droughts; to create an exit for Brazil to the Pacific Ocean; and to implement projects from Getúlio Vargas' government, which included investments in public healthcare, the opening of state-funded restaurants for the poor and the increase in the minimum wage.[5] His candidacy was challenged in the Superior Electoral Court by the national leadership of his party, which had predetermined not to launch its own candidate.[6] João de Deus received 0.29% of the votes, coming 8th of 12 candidates.

In 2000, he ran for councillor in the city of Rio de Janeiro, but was not elected.[7]

References edit

  1. ^ "Guia do Eleitor". Jornal do Brasil (in Portuguese). No. 178. Rio de Janeiro: BN Digital. 3 October 1990. p. 20. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
  2. ^ "Partido Nacionalista dos Trabalhadores, PNT". FGV CPDOC (in Portuguese). Retrieved 3 April 2024.
  3. ^ "Partido Nacionalista dos Trabalhadores Brasileiros, PNTB". FGV CPDOC (in Portuguese). Retrieved 3 April 2024.
  4. ^ Pinto, Simone Cuber Araújo. "Partido Trabalhista do Brasil (1989)". FGV CPDOC (in Portuguese). Retrieved 3 April 2024.
  5. ^ Ryff, Luiz Antônio (18 July 1998). "João de Deus quer reviver era Vargas". Folha de S. Paulo (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
  6. ^ "PT do B contesta candidatura do próprio partido". Folha Online (in Portuguese). São Paulo. 15 July 1998. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
  7. ^ "Estatísticas eleitorais". Superior Electoral Court (in Portuguese). Retrieved 3 April 2024.
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