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Your continued donations keep Wikipedia runningPaulo MalufFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchPaulo Maluf (b. 3 September 1931, S?o Paulo) is an Arab Brazilian politician with a career spanning over four decades and many functions, including state governorship (S?o Paulo), presidential candidacy and mayor of the city of S?o Paulo. He has been plagued throughout his political career with substantial allegations of corruption, but nevertheless, has only been convicted once, in 2001. Due to the nature of the Brazilian judicial system, only final convictions (without possibilities of appeal) are considered. He is currently a leader of Progressive Party of Brazil (PP), heir of the old National Renewal Alliance Party (ARENA).Paulo Maluf[edit]BiographyPaulo Salim Maluf, the son of Lebanese Christian immigrants Salim Farah Maluf and Maria Stephan Maluf, graduated 1954 in engineering at the University of S?o Paulo (USP), where coincidentally he was a colleague of the late M?rio Covas, another important Brazilian politician who would later become one of his biggest political rivals.Thanks to his friendship with the then military president Artur da Costa e Silva, he was appointed mayor of S?o Paulo in 1968, replacing the very popular Faria Lima. In a manner very similar to New York’s Robert Moses, he suspended the construction of the S?o Paulo Metro and built one of the most controversial constructions of Brazil: Costa e Silva elevated expressway, also know as Minhoc?o (“Big Earthworm” in Portuguese). This expressway is seen as responsible for the degradation of a great area of S?o Paulo´s downtown by placing a high-traffic elevated road in the middle of the city.In 1972, following his mayorship, he served as secretary of transport of the state of S?o Paulo. He would then succeed in being appointed state governor for the state of S?o Paulo in 1978, during which one of the most notable accusations of corruption against him emerged, concerning the oil company Paulipetro. This was a state company founded by Maluf during his tenure as governor with the purpose of digging the state for oil and which consumed around US$500 million whilst digging up 21 holes and finding nothing but a few pockets of natural gas and water.He was then successfully elected a federal deputy with a record 672 #160;629 votes in 1982 and was the militarys preferred presidential candidate for the 1985 presidential elections, where he stood a good chance of winning until his PDS party (as the current PP was known at the time) splintered into the PFL, resulting in the election of Tancredo Neves. He has since then only successfully managed to get himself elected once, in 1992, again as mayor of S?o Paulo, despite his participation in every single state and mayoral election for S?o Paulo state and S?o Paulo city, with the exception of 1989 when he was a presidential candidate, although the election of Celso Pitta can be directly attributed to his endorsement.One not
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