Teotônio Brandão Vilela Filho (Viçosa, Alagoas

Viçosa, Alagoas

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, January 29 of 1951) is a Brazil

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ian economist

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, politician

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 and current Governor

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 of Alagoas

Alagoas

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. He graduated at the Universidade de Brasília and then specialized in Business Administration at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas

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He is one of the sons of the former senator Teôtonio Vilela, and was one of the founders of the PSDB

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. In 1986, he won his first Senate elections, becoming, at the time, the youngest senator to ever take office in Brazil

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. He was reelected for that in 1994 and 2002. In 2006 he was elected the governor of Alagoas

Alagoas

Alagoas is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil and is situated in the eastern part of the Northeast Region. It borders: Pernambuco ; Sergipe ; Bahia ; and the Atlantic Ocean . It occupies an area of 27,767 km², being slightly larger than Haiti...

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