Márcio Luiz França Gomes (born 23 June 1963) is a Brazilian lawyer and politician, member of the

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(PSB), and former governor and vice governor of

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, elected with

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. França assumed the office as governor on 6 April 2018 after Alckmin resigned to run for

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in the 2018 election. França ran for re-election in

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, but lost to

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by a narrow margin in the run-off. He was the PSB nominee for Mayor of

with Antonio Neto, from PDT, as vice mayoral running mate. In the

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, França was a candidate for the

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, while his wife Lúcia França became the running mate of

Fernando Haddad Fernando Haddad (; born 25 January 1963) is a Brazilian scholar, lawyer and politician who has served as the Brazilian Minister of Finance since 1 January 2023. He was previously the mayor of São Paulo from 2013 to 2017 and the Brazilian mini ...

in the São Paulo gubernatorial election.

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