Rui Costa dos Santos (born January 18, 1963) is a Brazilian economist and politician. He has served as governor of

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since January 2015. He is affiliated with the Workers' Party (PT). In January 2007, invited by the Governor

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, Rui Costa took over the Secretariat of Institutional Relations (Serin), where he stayed until 2010. In Serin, Rui developed a new model of integration between the executive and legislative state with federal entities and social movements. The initiative was enhanced with the launch of the Institutional Relationship System (SRI), designed to speed up the progress of claims and standardize care. In 2010 he was elected federal deputy for the PT, again with the highest number of votes of the PT bench.Biografia
- Site da Casa Civil da Bahia Rui Costa was chosen as the PT candidate for the State of Bahia in elections in 2014, and elected in the 1st round with 54.53% of the votes, against 37.39% of his main opponent, Paulo Souto. In 2018, he was reelected with over 75% of the votes in the first round, easily defeating Zé Ronaldo. Rui Costa is considered a moderate among his party. As governor, he privatized the state owned supermarket, approved a pension reform, implemented

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s for education and health and supported electoral alliances with the

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and Democrats, center right historical rivals of PT, in the 2022 presidential election in order to defeat Bolsonaro. He is being considered as the PT presidential nominee in 2022.

Criticism

Following the 2015 killing of 12 men, including four teenagers, by state police,

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published a ''

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'' article on its website, reporting that official figures from the Annual Report of Public Security, reveal that, each day, "at least six people are killed by police officers in Brazil" and that the true number is likely higher, as "most states across the country prefer to keep these alarming figures under wraps." Costa was widely criticized for his public response, including a false narrative of events and declaring the police as "heroes".

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also reported the killings and that the largest Black population in Brazil, resides in Costa's home, the Bahia state capitol,

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, and that "80 percent of those killed by police in Brazil are young, black and poor."

References

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