Carlos Eduardo Alves
Carlos Eduardo Nunes Alves (born 5 June 1959) is a Brazilian lawyer and politician, who was the mayor of the city of Natal from 2002 to 2009, and again from 2013 to 2018. During his second term, he won the election in 2012, and began his mandate on 1 January 2013. He was reelected in the first round in 2016 with 63.42% of the vote, totaling 225,741 votes. On 6 April 2018, he announced his resignation to run to be governor of the state of Rio Grande do Norte that year.

 Biography 
Alves graduated with a law degree from Universidade Santa Úrsula, though he never became a lawyer because he never had registered with the Order of Attorneys of Brazil (OAB). Coming from a politically prominent family, he is the son of former Natal mayor Agnelo Alves, who had been removed from office during the Brazilian military dictatorship due to his family's opposition to the regime. Carlos Eduardo Alves later entered into politics in Natal and became a state deputy in 1986. His uncles were ex-governor of Rio Grande do Norte , through whom Henrique Eduardo Alves is his cousin, and former senator Garibaldi Alves, through whom Garibaldi Alves Filho is also his cousin.

In 2000, he was elected vice-mayor of Natal, having assumed the mayoralty in 2002 after the resignation of then-mayor Wilma de Faria, to run for governor. He was reelected in his own right in 2004.

After ending his mandate, Alves was caught in scandals involving the expiration of eight tons of medicine that were stored by his administration that were later discarded.

In 2010, he ran for governor of Rio Grande do Norte as part of the Democratic Labour Party (PDT), receiving third place with 160,828 votes (10.37%) and not advancing to the second round. The winner was Rosalba Ciarlini of the Democrats.

During the 2012 municipal elections in Natal, Alves once again became a candidate for mayor for the PDT, with former governor Wilma de Faria of the PSB as his vice-mayoral pick. On 7 October, he came in first place with 153,464 votes (40.42%). He moved on to the second round on 28 October against Hermano Moraes of the PMDB. He was elected in the second round with 214,687 votes, or 58.31% of the vote.

Alves ran for reelection in 2016, and won reelection in the first round, with 225,741 votes, or 63.42% of the vote. He took office on 1 January 2017.

On 6 April 2018, he announced that he would resign from office to run to be governor of Rio Grande do Norte later that year. His vice-mayor, Álvaro Costa Dias, assumed the mayoralty. He advanced to the second round, but lost to then-senator Fátima Bezerra.

 Electoral history 
YearElectionPartyPositionVotes %ResultRef1986Rio Grande do Norte state electionsPMDBState deputy24,3672.62%rowspan=7 1990Rio Grande do Norte state elections14,9201.57%1994Rio Grande do Norte state elections21,5562.67%1998Rio Grande do Norte state elections41,6893.71%2000Natal municipal electionsVice-mayor178,01657.71% 2004Natal municipal electionsPSBMayor137,66437.30% (1st round)192,51351.92% 
(2nd round)2010Rio Grande do Norte state electionsPDTGovernor160,82810.37% 2012Natal municipal electionsMayor153,46440.42%  (1st round)rowspan=3  214,68758,31% (2nd round)2016Natal municipal electionsMayor225,74163.42% 2018Rio Grande do Norte state electionsGovernor525,93332.04% (1st round) rowspan=3 753,03542.40% (2nd round)2022Rio Grande do Norte state electionsSenator565,23533.40%

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Category:1959 births
Category:Living people
Category:Brazilian Democratic Movement politicians
Category:Democratic Labour Party (Brazil) politicians
Category:Brazilian Socialist Party politicians
Category:Social Democratic Party (Brazil, 2011) politicians
Category:Mayors of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
Category:Members of the Legislative Assembly of Rio Grande do Norte
Category:Alves family