Patrus Ananias
Patrus Ananias de Sousa (Bocaiúva, 26 January 1952) is a Brazilian lawyer and politician, member of the Workers' Party (PT).His term as mayor was marked with structural reforms in city administration, with changes in city hall organization, in public planning, and in public politics, engaging in an agenda of social development, with politics of fighting against poverty, of food security, of promotion of jobs and income, as well as investments in education and health.[5] In the Federal Chamber, assumed the vice presidency of the Constitution and Justice Committee and became member of the Ethics and Parliamentary Decour Council.He loses the nomination, but, on 31 March 2010, leaves the Ministry to run in the elections, in the condition of candidate for Vice Governor in the opposition ticket with the then Minister of Communications senator Hélio Costa.[11] In that election, he was chosen after the rupture of the alliance PT-PSB, then in the command of the state's capital, which was already sealed, having the federal deputy Miguel Corrêa, close to the minister Fernando Pimentel, as Vice Mayor of Márcio Lacerda.