Cid Gomes | |
Office: | Senator for Ceará |
Term Start: | 1 February 2019 |
Predecessor: | Eunício Oliveira |
Office1: | Minister of Education |
Term Start1: | 1 January 2015 |
Term End1: | 18 March 2015 |
President1: | Dilma Rousseff |
Predecessor1: | José Henrique Paim |
Successor1: | Renato Janine Ribeiro |
Office2: | Governor of Ceará |
Term Start2: | 1 January 2007 |
Term End2: | 31 December 2014 |
Vicegovernor2: |
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Predecessor2: | Lúcio Alcântara |
Office3: | Mayor of Sobral |
Term Start3: | 1 January 1997 |
Term End3: | 31 December 2004 |
1Blankname3: | Vice Mayor |
1Namedata3: | Edilson Aragão |
Predecessor3: | Aldenor Façanha Júnior |
Successor3: | Leônidas Cristino |
Birth Date: | 27 April 1963 |
Birth Place: | Sobral, Ceará, Brazil |
Alma Mater: | Federal University of Ceará |
Profession: | Engineer |
Spouse: | Maria Célia Habib Moura |
Children: | 3 |
Relatives: | Ciro Gomes (brother) |
Party: | PSB (since 2024) |
Cid Ferreira Gomes (born 27 April 1963) is a Brazilian politician who serves as a Senator for the state of Ceará since 2019.[1] He is a member of the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) since 2024, and is the brother of fellow Brazilian politician Ciro Gomes.
Gomes is the former Governor of Ceará.[2] During his governorship, his vice governor was Francisco José Pinheiro. On 1 January 2015 he was named Minister of Education of Brazil in the cabinet of Dilma Rousseff, and served until 18 March of that same year. On 19 February 2020, Gomes was shot after using a bulldozer to remove a barricade built by a group of masked military police officers during an illegal demonstration in Sobral, Ceará.[3]