Eduardo Jorge | |
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Federal Deputy from São Paulo | |
In office 1 February 1987 – 31 January 2003 | |
State Deputy for São Paulo | |
In office 1 February 1983 – 1 December 1986 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Eduardo Jorge Martins Alves Sobrinho 26 October 1949 Salvador, Brazil |
Political party | PV (2003–present) |
Other political affiliations | PT (1980–2003) |
Alma mater | Federal University of Paraíba |
Profession | Physician |
Eduardo Jorge Martins Alves Sobrinho (born 26 October 1949) [1] is a Brazilian public health physician and politician. He is best known for creating (or co-creating) federal laws on family planning, voluntary sterilization, the production of generic drugs, regulation of asbestos use, and linking budgetary resources for the Brazilian public health system. [2]
Born in Salvador, Bahia in Paraíba to Guilardo Martins Alves and Maria da Penha Gomes Martins, [3] Jorge studied Medicine from 1967 to 1973, when he graduated from the Federal University of Paraíba. [4] Following this, he obtained degrees in Preventive Medicine and Public Health from the University of São Paulo between 1974 and 1976. [4] In addition, he engaged in politics as a militant activist for the Revolutionary Communist Party against the Brazilian military government. [1] In 1976, he was hired to work as São Paulo's Department of Health as director of Itaquera's Health Center. [5]
In 1980, he was one of the co-founders of the Brazilian Workers' Party, [1] where he was a deputy for the state of São Paulo from 1983 to 1987. [5] He was also Secretary of Health for the City of São Paulo in the governments of both Luiza Erundina (1989–1990) and Marta Suplicy's (2001–2002). [2] Eduardo Jorge was a federal deputy from 1987 to 2003, [5] when he left the Workers' Party and joined the Green Party. [6] From 2005 to 2012, he was Secretary of the Environment for José Serra and Gilberto Kassab. [6]
In 2014, Eduardo Jorge was announced as the Green Party's presidential candidate in the Brazilian general election of 2014. [4] During his campaign, he advocated for the legalization of abortion as a public health issue, and for the legalization of drugs [7]—which he had already defended as a Congressman in 1995 [8]—to end the war on drugs. [7] In the end, he was the sixth most voted-for candidate, receiving 630,099 votes, corresponding to 0.61% of the total. [9]