Occupation Medic Spouse Gracinha Caiado | Religion Roman Catholic Siblings Rondon Ramos Caiado | |
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Political party PSD (1989–1990)PFL (1991–2007)DEM (2007–present) Children Maria Caiado, Ronaldo Caiado Filho, Marcelo Caiado, Anna Vitória Caiado Parents Edenval Ramos Caiado, Maria Xavier Caiado Similar Magno Malta, Lindbergh Farias, Ana Amélia Lemos, Gleisi Hoffmann, Álvaro Dias Profiles | ||
Ronaldo Ramos Caiado (Anápolis, September 25, 1949) is a Brazilian politician. An orthopedic physician trained at the School of Medicine and Surgery of Rio de Janeiro, he comes from a family landowners and politicians from Goiás. He is the grandson of Antonio Ramos Caiado. Caiado served as chairman of the União Democrática Ruralista in the late eighties (1986-1989), an organization that aims to defend the interests of landowners.
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In politics
Caiado ran for president with the PSD, at Brazilian presidential election, 1989, obtaining 0.68% of the votes.
He was elected federal deputy for Goiás in 1990.The following year he joined PFL - now renamed DEM, to which he is still affiliated. He ran for governor of Goiás in 1994, obtaining 3rd place with 23.18% of the votes.
Caido was re-elected federal deputy successively in 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010. In 2014 he was elected Senator and since February 1, 2015 has been the DEM bench leader in the Senate.
A right wing politician, in his speeches Ronaldo Caiado often criticizes the current PT government. In 2014 he was elected senator for the state of Goiás with 1,283,665 votes.
Statements of Demostenes Torres
On 31 March 2015 the former senator from DEM, Demostenes Torres, published an article in Goiás' newspaper Folha da Manhã, claiming that Ronaldo Caiado had expenses of the 2002 campaigns, 2006 and 2010 financed by Carlinhos Cachoeira scheme. Caiado denied the allegations, stating that Demostenes "has a typical behavior of a psycopath" and that the former senator was trying to get back at Caiado, as the latter had supported the impeachment process against Torres in 2012.