José Renato Nalini (born 24 December 1945 in Jundiaí) is a Brazilian jurist, professor, writer, magistrate and politician. He served as

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of the Justice Court of São Paulo, where he also served as President, and Secretary of Education of São Paulo.

Career

Nalini graduated as

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at the

Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo The Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (, PUC-SP), locally known as ''PUC'' or ''Catholic University'' ('), is a private and non-profit Catholic university. It is maintained by the Catholic Archdiocese of São Paulo. The university is ...

in 1971. He also became

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and

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at the

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in 1992 and 2000, respectively. He served as

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of the

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of São Paulo from 1973 to 1976, when he joined the magistrate career as law judge. Nalini was promoted to judge of the Criminal Court of São Paulo in 1993 and became desembargador of the Justice Court of São Paulo in 2004. Served as Inspector-General of Justice of the State of São Paulo from 2012 to 2013 and President of the Court from 2014 to 2015, when he retired. Nalini served also as President of the Paulista Academy of Letters. After retiring as desembargador, he was nominated in January 2016 as Secretary of Education of the State of São Paulo by Governor

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, more than 40 days after the leaving of Herman Voorwald, who resigned due to the suspension of the school reorganization process. He left the office on 13 April 2018, after Alckmin's resign. On 9 December 2010, Nalini was awarded with the Grand Officer grade of the

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by the Government of São Paulo. On 4 June 2018, he was awarded with the Commander grade of the

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Controversies

In 2003, while President of the extinct Criminal Court, he conceded a habeas corpus to

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, so he wouldn't be indicted of press crime and threat in the interview with fake members of the First Command of the Capital. In interview to Jornal da Cultura in 2014, desembargador Nalini, commenting on the budget forecast of R$ 1 billion (approximately US$425.5 million in 2014) for the concession of housing assistance for judges, acknowledged that the assistance "disguises a subsidy increase" and affirmed that the measure would be justifiable because, among other reasons, the judges need to buy many suits and " ecan't go to

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every time to buy suits". The statement gained negative repercussion. On 5 April 2016, Secretary Nalini published a controverse open letter to the Secretariat of Education website, "The Orphan Society", where he states that education shouldn't be a basic right secured by the State. In the text, the Secretary explicits his view of market and society, putting himself on the

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of the political spectrum and choosing the

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as an ideal (notion that the State should only provide security and justice). Nalini was mediator between students and the State, giving continuity to the reorganization of the public education, now listening to the opinion of the students and community, as promised by Alckmin for 2016.

References

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