Mike Pompeo at the
U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on June 4, 2018. In 1990 he was elected vice governor of
São Paulo. He governed the state in a few occasions, when the governor was travelling or in each case, absent. He was candidate for mayor of the city of
São Paulo in 1992, but lost to
Paulo Maluf. He was elected federal deputy in 1994. In 1997 he left the party and joined the
Brazilian Social Democracy Party. He was a special aide to president
Fernando Henrique Cardoso and later his minister of justice. He worked in the governments of
José Serra in the
city and the
state of São Paulo. In 2010 he was elected the senator with the highest number of votes in the history of
Brazil, with astonishing 11.189.168 votes (30.4%). He was the candidate to the vice presidency in the 2014 presidential elections in
Aécio Neves's ticket. Together they had obtained slightly more than 51 million votes, however they lost the elections by a slight margin to
Dilma Rousseff, from the Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT). ==See also==