Ricardo José Magalhães Barros (born 15 November 1959 in Maringá) is a Brazilian politician, civil engineer and businessman. He is a

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and former

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Maringá Maringá () is a municipality in southern Brazil founded on 10 May 1947 as a planned urban area. It is the third largest city in the state of Paraná, with 385,753 inhabitants in the city proper, and 764,906 in the metropolitan area (IBGE 2013). ...

. He is married to the Vice Governor of Paraná, Cida Borghetti. He is the son of the former mayor of Maringá Silvio Magalhães Barros and brother to the also former mayor Silvio Barros. In 2010, Barros was candidate for the

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, getting more than 2 million votes. He is national vice-president of the

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(PP) and president of the National Council of Secretaries of Economic Development. In 2012, he was national coordinator of the city elections of PP, winning in his electoral domicile. He graduated as an Engineer at the

State University of Maringá The State University of Maringá ( pt, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, UEM) is a public university whose main campus is in Maringá, Paraná, Brazil. It was founded in 1970 and recognized in 1976 by the Federal Government of Brazil. Its acade ...

. He was appointed on 12 May 2016 as Minister of Health by president

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, after the suspension of president

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due to her impeachment process. Gilberto Occhi, then president of

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, succeed him as Minister, since Barros resigned to run for federal deputy at the 2018 general elections.

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