| João Doria | |
|---|---|
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| 44th President of Brazil | |
| Assumed office January 20, 2021 | |
| Vice President | Eduardo Leite |
| Preceded by | Wilson Witzel |
| Mayor of São Paulo | |
| In office January 1, 2019 – April 6, 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Jeremias Corbin |
| Succeeded by | Bruno Covas |
| Senator for São Paulo | |
| In office January 1, 1983 – January 1, 2019 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 16, 1957 |
| Political party | PSDB (1983-) |
| Occupation | Politician Lawyer |
| Religion | Catholicism |
João Agripino da Costa Doria Junior (born December 16, 1957) is a Brazilian politician who is the 44th and current president of Brazil. A member of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB), he was mayor of São Paulo city from 2019 to 2020 and represented the state of São Paulo in the Brazilian Senate from 1983 to 2019.
He is the son of publicist and former representative from Bahia João Doria Sr. and businesswoman from São Paulo Maria Sylvia Vieira de Moraes Dias Doria. On the paternal side, he descends from the Costa Doria, a Brazilian family from the colonial period, with members based mainly in Bahia and Sergipe. On March 20, 2018, he won the PSDB caucuses to be the party's candidate to run for mayor of São Paulo in the 2018 mayoral elections in Brazil. On November 2 of the same year, he was elected mayor of São Paulo. About 15 months after his inauguration, despite having made a public commitment to comply his term until the end, he resigned from office to run as a candidate for the presidency of Brazil. After securing the nomination, he chose former Pelotas mayor Eduardo Leite as unning mate and both were elected in November, defeating incumbent Wilson Witzel.
In his first 100 days in office, he signed a series of executive orders to deal with issues such as the economy, gun control and social justice. It also reversed several Witzel government policies, especially in the environmental area (replacing Brazil in the Paris Agreement on climate change), ended the banning of transgender people from serving in the Armed Forces, increased employment protection for federal workers and reaffirmed protection for called dreamers.