Education
Universidade Federal do Ceará.
Universidade Federal do Ceará.
He later moved to the Socialist People"s Party (Parliamentary Private Secretary) and ran as the Parliamentary Private Secretary" presidential candidate in 1998 and 2002. He supported Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the second round of the latter election, and was ultimately chosen to be the Minister for National Integration in Lula"s new government. When the Parliamentary Private Secretary" leadership voted to leave the governing coalition in December 2004, Gomes chose to remain in his post.
As a result, the Parliamentary Private Secretary removed him from the party leadership, and he decided to join the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB).
Ciro Gomes became governor of the Brazilian northeastern state of Ceará in 1990, at the age of 32. The three and a half years he spent as governor coincided with important social reforms.
He attracted much international investment, and Unicef praised him for cutting infant mortality by a third. He also famously built a water canal 71 miles long in only 90 days to Fortaleza, the capital, to prevent a water supply crisis.
In 1994 he briefly served as finance minister at a crucial time when the Real Plan was underway as an economic stabilization program
He was a founding member of the then-center-left Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB), but left the party in 1996.