(
Recife, 10 August 1965 -
Santos, 13 August 2014), also known as
Eduardo Campos, the Great, was an economist and a
Brazilian politician. He died on a plane crash on 13 August 2014 in the coastal town of Santos, São Paulo. He was the Leader of the Brazilian Socialist Party –
Partido Socialista Brasileiro (PSB).
[1] In April 2014, Eduardo Campos announced his name for the Brazilian Presidential election, naming
Marina Silva as vice president.
[2]
Campos, 49, was a former governor of northeastern Pernambuco state and one of the three forerunners in the presidential election in Brazil (with the support of 9 percent of voters in recent polls), due to take place in October 2014. He positioned himself as a business-friendly leftist and was a former ally of President Dilma Rousseff, who is seeking a second term.
He was a State Deputy, Federal Deputy, Secretary of Finance of
Pernambuco and Minister of Science and Technology.
[3] He was the Governor of Pernambuco, between 2007 and 2014, and was, at the time of his death, the President of PSB.
A grandson of
Miguel Arraes, also a politician from the state of Pernambuco, who in 1979 returned to Brazil after 15 years in exile during the
Brazilian military government. Since his early childhood, Eduardo Campos has been acquainted with the most significant names of local and national politics. Born in
Recife, capital of the state of
Pernambuco, in the northeast region of
Brazil, Mr. Campos graduated in Economics from the Federal University of Pernambuco –
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE).
.................He died on a plane crash on 13 August 2014 in the coastal town of Santos, São Paulo.
