Bruno Covas

Bruno Covas joined the PSDB in 1998 and, the next year, was elected 1st Secretary of the party's Youth organization. In 2003, he was elected State President of PSDB Youth, and elected the organization's National President in 2007 for a four-year term.[6]

Elected State Deputy in 2006 with 122,312 votes,[7] was considered by Movement Aware Vote the most active deputy of the 16th Legislature (2007/2010).

He was president of the Committee of Finances and Budget of the first biennium (2007/2008) and rapporteur of the State Budget for two consecutive years (2009–2010).

Covas also was part of the Committees of Human Rights and Defense of Consumer Rights and was president of the Parliamentary Front of the Luso-Brazilian Community and Coordinator of the Front DST-Aids.

Covas was rapporteur of more than 180 bills, such as the Nota Fiscal Paulista, that decreased the tax burden and gave back taxes directly to citizens, and was president of the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry (CPI) of ECAD (Central Office of Collection and Distribution), rapporteur of the CPI of CDHU (Urban and Housing Development Company) and member of the CPI of BANCOOP (Housing Cooperative of Bank Officers of São Paulo).

In 2011, took office as the Secretary of Environment of the new government of Geraldo Alckmin.[8]

Bruno Covas was elected federal deputy in 2014 for the 55th Legislature (2015–2019). He voted "Yes" for the opening of the process of impeachment of Dilma Rousseff.[9] While in the government of President Michel Temer, he voted "Yes" for the Bill of the "Ceiling" of Public Spendings.[9]

Covas was elected deputy mayor of São Paulo in the first round, alongside winning mayoral candidate João Doria.[2] When Doria was elected Governor in 2018, Covas took office as mayor for the remainder of his term.

Covas in 2019

On 19 October 2019, Covas was taken to the emergency department at Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein with a rash on his leg and was prescribed antibiotics. He failed to improve and was admitted to Hospital Sírio-Libanês on 23 October with a diagnosis of erysipelas. Two days later, he was found to have a deep venous thrombosis of the fibular veins[10] and bilateral pulmonary emboli.[11] His young age and lack of risk factors prompted further investigation, which revealed an adenocarcinoma of the gastroesophageal junction with liver and regional lymph node metastases.[11]

From October through February 2020, Covas received chemotherapy with complete remission of the primary tumor, but the lymph node metastases persisted; he then began a course of immunotherapy.[12] As of November 2020, he has stable disease and continues to receive immunotherapy with pembrolizumab every 3 weeks.[12]

In June 2020, he tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.[13][14] He self-isolated at City Hall for 2 weeks and recovered uneventfully.[12]

Covas was reelected for a full term as mayor in the 2020 election. He received 1,754,013 votes (32.85%) in the first round, advancing to the runoff in a 12-candidate field, and 3,169,121 votes (59.38%) in the second round, beating PSOL candidate Guilherme Boulos by just over 1 million votes.[12][15]