Carlos Fávaro | |
Office: | Minister of Agriculture |
Term Start: | 1 January 2023 |
President: | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva |
Predecessor: | Marcos Montes |
Office1: | Senator for Mato Grosso |
Term Start1: | 17 April 2020 |
Predecessor1: | Selma Arruda |
Successor1: | Margareth Buzetti |
Office2: | Vice Governor of Mato Grosso |
Term Start2: | 1 January 2015 |
Term End2: | 5 April 2018 |
1Blankname2: | Governor |
1Namedata2: | Pedro Taques |
Predecessor2: | Chico Daltro |
Successor2: | Otaviano Pivetta |
Birth Name: | Carlos Henrique Baqueta Fávaro |
Birth Date: | 18 October 1969 |
Birth Place: | Bela Vista do Paraíso, Paraná, Brazil |
Spouse: | Claudinéia Vendramini |
Children: | 2 |
Party: | PSD (2015–present) |
Otherparty: | PP (Before 2015) |
Profession: | Agricultural |
Carlos Henrique Baqueta Fávaro (born 18 October 1969) is a Brazilian farmer and politician. In April 2018, he resigned from the office of Vice Governor of Mato Grosso.[1]
He embarked on a political career after years of work in the agribusiness, where he had become Vice President of the Soy Producers Association of Brazil (Aprosoja Brasil) in 2010 and President in 2012. He had also presided the Agroindustrial Cooperative of Lucas do Rio Verde (Cooperbio Verde) from 2007 to 2011. Fávaro was also delegate in the Soy and Corn Producers Association of Mato Grosso (Aprosoja).[2]
In the 2014 elections, as a member of the Progressive Party (PP), he was elected Vice Governor of Mato Grosso in the first round, in a ticket led by Pedro Taques (PSDB), receiving 57.25% of the valid votes.[3]
In 2020, after the removal of Selma Arruda from the Federal Senate, Fávaro will temporarily assume her seat as senator.[4] He earned the right to serve the remainder of the term Arruda was elected to serve in, through 31 January 2027, as, in November 2020, he won a special election to the seat she vacated.[5]