Alexandre Kalil (

Belo Horizonte Belo Horizonte (, ; ) is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population around 2.7 million and with a metropolitan area of 6 million people. It is the 13th-largest city in South America and the 18th-largest in the Americas. The metropol ...

; March 25, 1959) is a Brazilian politician and

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. He served as mayor of

from 2017 to 2022. He served as president of

Clube Atlético Mineiro Clube Atlético Mineiro (), commonly known as Atlético Mineiro or Atlético, and colloquially as Galo (, "Rooster"), is the largest professional football club based in the city of Belo Horizonte, the capital city of the Brazilian state of Mi ...

, a

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club based in

, Brazil that competes in Campeonato Brasileiro, the top tier of the

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, as well as in the

Campeonato Mineiro Campeonato Mineiro is the state football league of the state of Minas Gerais and is controlled by the Minas Gerais Football Federation FMF (Federação Mineira de Futebol). The history of Campeonato Mineiro can be divided into two parts: befor ...

, the premier

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of Minas Gerais. Alexandre Kalil is the president under whom the club has won more official trophies, with six, including its only

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and

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. He was succeeded by Daniel Nepomuceno, who took over as president of the club in 2014. Alexandre is the only son of former club president Elias Kalil. Alexandre Kalil's career in Atletico started in the early 1980s, managing its volleyball team. He was also the football director and the president of the deliberation council. Alexandre Kalil studied Civil Engineering until the fourth of the five-year course, and left to work in the family Engineering company, Erkal, founded by his father Elias and his uncle Roberto Kalil. He registered its candidacy to the

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in 2014, but gave up campaigning, allegedly tired of politics. Later, he joined the PHS and announced he would run for mayor with the "No More Politicians" motto, presenting himself as an alternative to Brazil's crumbling political system. Running a small-scale campaign, he defeated traditional parties like the ruling

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, of president

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and the Workers' Party and won a narrow second-round victory over João Leite, a former

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and a current state legislator of the

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. The mayor of

and former director of Atlético Mineiro Alexandre Kalil in 2021 also claimed that

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built a nation different from Bolsonaro in addition to having relations with the Ukrainian government in selling player for football in the country.Estádio do clube de Bernard é bombardeado na Ucrânia
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