| Jorginho Mello | |
| Office: | Governor of Santa Catarina |
| Term Start: | 1 January 2023 |
| 1Namedata: | Marilisa Boehm |
| Predecessor: | Carlos Moisés |
| Office1: | Senator for Santa Catarina |
| Term Start1: | 1 February 2019 |
| Term End1: | 1 January 2023 |
| Office2: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies |
| Term Start2: | 1 February 2011 |
| Term End2: | 1 February 2019 |
| Constituency2: | Santa Catarina |
| Office3: | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Santa Catarina |
| Term Start3: | 1 February 1995 |
| Term End3: | 1 February 2011 |
| Constituency3: | At-large |
| Office4: | Member of the Municipal Chamber of Herval d'Oeste |
| Term Start4: | 1976 |
| Term End4: | 1980 |
| Constituency4: | At-large |
| Birth Name: | Jorginho dos Santos Mello |
| Birth Date: | 15 July 1956 |
| Birth Place: | Ibicaré, Santa Catarina, Brazil |
| Party: | PL (since 2013) |
Jorginho dos Santos Mello (born 17 August 1967) is a Brazilian politician, member of the Liberal Party (PL). He is the incumbent Governor of Santa Catarina and had served as Senator from 2019 to 2022. He resigned to run for the state governorship, being replaced by his substitute Ivete da Silveira (MDB).[1] Mello is the Liberal Party state president.
Mello was born in Ibicaré, Santa Catarina before moving 20 kilometers away to Herval d'Oeste as a child.[2]
Mello had served as state representative in the Legislative Assembly 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th Legislatures[3] He was later elected for the Chamber of Deputies for the 54th and 55th Legislatures, representing the state in the National Congress lower house.[4]
He voted for the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff.[5] During the Michel Temer administration, Mello voted in favor of the Constitutional Amendment of the Public Expenditure Cap.[5] In April 2017, he was favorable to the Labour Reform.[5] [6] In August, he voted to open an investigation against president Temer.[5] [7]
In the 2018 election, Mello was elected for the Federal Senate for Santa Catarina, gaining 1,179,757 votes (18.07% of the valid votes), and winning opponents such as then senator Paulo Bauer (PSDB) and former governor Raimundo Colombo (PSD).[8]
In 2019, president Jair Bolsonaro signed Complementary Law no. 167, which creates the Simple Credit Company, after ammendments suggested by Mello.[9]
In the 2022 election, Mello was elected Governor of Santa Catarina on the second round, gaining 2,983,949 votes (70.69% of the valid votes), being the highest percentage in state elections in that year.[10]
| Year | Role | Party | Partner | Party | Votes | Result | References | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | State Deputy | PL | None | 0.86%19,104 | [11] | |||||
| 1998 | PSDB | None | 1,08%26,825 | |||||||
| 2002 | None | 1.11%34.486 | ||||||||
| 2006 | None | 1.64%54.002 | ||||||||
| 2010 | Federal Deputy | None | 3.59%119.757 | [12] | ||||||
| 2014 | PR | None | 4.15%140.839 | [13] | ||||||
| 2018 | Senator | Ivete da Silveira | MDB | 18.07%1.179.757 | ||||||
| Beto Martins | PSDB | |||||||||
| 2022 | Governor | PL | Marilisa Boehm | PL | 38.61%1.575.912 | [14] | -- auto-translated from Portuguese by Module:CS1 translator --> | |||
| 70.69%2.983.949 | ||||||||||