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Cid Ferreira Gomes (born 27 April 1963) is a Brazilian politician who serves as a Senator for the state of Ceará since 2019.[1] He is a member of the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) since 2024, and is the brother of fellow Brazilian politician Ciro Gomes.

Gomes is the former Governor of Ceará.[2] During his governorship, his vice governor was Francisco José Pinheiro. On 1 January 2015 he was named Minister of Education of Brazil in the cabinet of Dilma Rousseff, and served until 18 March of that same year. On 19 February 2020, Gomes was shot after using a bulldozer to remove a barricade built by a group of masked military police officers during an illegal demonstration in Sobral, Ceará.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Cid Gomes". Federal Senate. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
  2. ^ "Biografia" (in Portuguese). Governo do Estado do Ceará. Archived from the original on September 3, 2011. Retrieved August 24, 2011.
  3. ^ "O que se sabe sobre tiros que atingiram senador Cid Gomes em protesto de PMs no Ceará". BBC News Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2020-02-19. Retrieved 2020-02-20.


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