Tarcísio de Freitas

Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas (born 19 June 1975) is a Brazilian engineer and politician who has served as Governor of São Paulo since 1 January 2023.

A member of the Republicanos party, Freitas served Minister of Infrastructure under President Jair Bolsonaro from 1 January 2019 to 31 March 2022.

[3] In the October 2022 run-off Tarcísio defeated PT candidate Fernando Haddad, becoming the first elected governor of São Paulo in 28 years to not be a PSDB member.

In 2011, he was appointed executive director of the National Department of the Infrastructure of Transportation (DNIT) by General Jorge Fraxe, who led the office during the "ethical cleaning" ordered by then-president Dilma Rousseff, after a crisis caused by corruption allegations.

Prior to announcing his candidacy for Governor of São Paulo in the 2022 election, he was speculated to run for Federal Senate to represent Brasília.

Freitas in 2019