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Grandson of Tancredo Neves, he presided over the lower house, governed Minas Gerais (2003–10) and was a senator. The PSDB's 2014 candidate, he lost to Dilma Rousseff by just over 3 points. Named in the 2017 JBS plea deal, he left the party leadership.
Political axes
Aécio Neves leans further toward free market than 80% of the 749 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Control is where Aécio Neves stands furthest from the rest.
On Power, Aécio Neves sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
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Current of Brazil's PSDB, founded in 1988 by Covas, Montoro and Cardoso, joining a market economy, social state, state reform and fiscal responsibility with parliamentarism and moderation on social issues.
Pro-market centrist branch that combines fiscal responsibility, liberal democracy, moderate international openness, and institutional reform, rejecting both broad statism and libertarian radicalism as a political program.
Liberalism that defends democracy, individual rights and a market economy, but tests each policy against evidence: it accepts regulation, a safety net and targeted intervention when they fix market failures, as in Clinton's Third Way.
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Pol Pot SocialismRadical Left31%
Opposition leader stripped of his mandate by the dictatorship and founder of the PSDB, Covas called for a capitalism shock in the 1989 campaign and, as governor of São Paulo, pursued fiscal adjustment, privatizations and concessions with a social democratic, ethical message.
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A presidential federal republic, Argentina under Javier Milei since 2023 pursues fiscal restraint, deregulation and privatization while retaining public services and aligning with the United States and Israel, breaking with Peronism.
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With Fernando Henrique Cardoso at the Finance Ministry and then in the Presidency, Brazil stabilized its currency with the Plano Real, privatized state firms and adopted a Fiscal Responsibility Law, in a democracy that approved presidential re-election.
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