know the history of Caiado in Goiás

Taken with Gracinha's wife and children Marcela (E), Maria, Ana Vitória and Ronaldo Filho (Photo: Divulgação / Assessoria)

who is over 40 years old and who follows the Goiania policy, you have heard of Leonino Caiado, Emival Caiado and, if he is older, even of Totó Caiado. Leonino was governor of Goiás between 1971 and 1973. Emival was a member of the state, a federal deputy and a senator. He was known nationally for being the author of the law that set April 21, 1960 the date of the transfer of the federal capital from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia. Totó Caiado was the most influential politician of the Old Republic in Goiás

The history of Caiado begins at the end of the second half of the eighteenth century. The historian Lena Castello Branco Ferreira de Freitas devoted several years of his career to the search for archives in Portugal. Rio de Janeiro, Goiânia and the city of Goiás, in addition to family archives, wrote the book Pbadion and Power – The Saga of Caiado. She says that Manuel Caiado de Souza was the first of the family to arrive in Goiás at the end of the 18th century.

He asked the Crown for a sesmaria – land distributed to a beneficiary, on behalf of the King of Portugal, with the aim of cultivating virgin land. It has settled in the Paciência forest, in the old Vila Boa (Goiás town), today in the municipality of Faina. Antonio was the first Caiado to enter politics. He was the grandfather of Antônio Ramos Caiado, Totó Caiado, the most important political leader of the family in the middle of Republic Vela.

Totó Caiado was a state deputy three times and twice a senator. He did not occupy the governorship of Goiás, but that did not prevent him from directing Goiás' policy between 1912 and 1930, and he did so through the Democratic Party, which brought together the oligarchic group of the time.

The most famous Caiado is now Ronaldo is the cousin of Leonino, nephew of Emival and grandson of Totó Caiado

. He is the governor of Goiás, born on September 25, 1949. He takes office on Tuesday January 1 as governor of Goiás. nicknamed Ronaldo Ramos Caiado, his grandfather, graduated from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in 1974. He holds a degree in orthopedics, a master's degree in the same University and specialization in spinal surgery in Paris, France. Back in Brazil, he was a professor in the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology of the UFRJ. He has four children, Ana Vitória and Ronaldo Filho, from their first marriage, and Marcela and Maria, the last two with his wife Gracinha Caiado.

Ronaldo Caiado is interested in politics at the age of 37 years. At that time, Brazil began its process of re-democratization after the military dictatorship and agrarian reform entered the political agenda.

In 1985, conservative rural producers responded to land reform movements and founded the Democratic Rural Union. ), with the stated purpose of fighting for the preservation of the right to private property, order and respect for the laws of the country.

Ronaldo Caiado was one of the founders of the UDR and its president between 1986 and 1989. He organized important demonstrations from farmers, such as the one that led to Brasilia in February 1987, about 25,000 rural workers. He was called by his comrades of the UDR of the "Right Lula".

In 1989, Caiado made his debut in an election campaign. He was a candidate for the presidency of the Republic by the former PSD during the first presidential election after the end of the dictatorship. He had clashes with Leonel Brizola and Lula, as in the historic debate between presidential candidates on TV Band in July 1989.

Caiado was not even close to power. He had less than 1% of the vote in the election defeated by Fernando Collor de Mello. His first victory was in 1990. He was elected federal MP. Four years later, another frustrated attempt to join the executive. He contested the election of governor in 1994 with Lucia Vânia, from PP, and with Maguito Vilela, PMDB.

Ronaldo Caiado's strength does not guarantee victory. He won 23% of the vote and was third. Maguito was won by Lucy in the second round. In 1998, he supported Marconi Perillo's candidacy for the PSDB governorship and was elected for his second term as a federal MP, now elected by the PFL, who later became the Democrats, or DEM, of which he remains a member. 19659004] The relationship between Caiado and Marconi has always been conflictual. In 2000, Marconi encouraged 23 mayors to trade the PFL against the PSDB. The act deeply angered the MP and he gave the change. In 2004, he nominated Raquel Azeredo to the city of Goiania as Emerald Palace. In 2006, he supported the candidacy of the governor of Senator Demosthenes Torres, his ally up to the scandal of the Cachoeira affair, against Alcides Rodrigues.

Caiado lost all these elections, but he was still re-elected federal deputy. In 2010, concerned about his political future, he accepted the DEM coalition with the Marconi PSDB on the condition of nominating the candidate for vice-governor. The challenge was accepted and he then appointed his lawyer, José Eliton Figueiredo, for the Tucana plaque. Everyone knows what it is.

The break between the two leaders only occurred in 2014. Caaiado finally left the allied base of Marconi Perillo. He entered into an unprecedented alliance with Iris Rezende's PMDB and was a candidate for the position of senator. Iris lost his third election to Marconi, but Caiado was elected to the Senate. In 2018, he tried to reissue the alliance, but ran into the MDB of the same Maguito Vilela and his son Daniel Vilela

During this year's campaign, with the support of mayors of emedebistas, the outspoken Caiaado gave way to a moderate politician. He avoided the virulent speeches that marked his political career.

Thus, Ronaldo Caiado was elected governor of the first round with more than 59% of the vote. During the two months of transition and consolidation of the team, the future governor remained in the new wardrobe. He was cautious and mediated conflicts between businessmen and Allied politicians. And he has won important political victories, such as increased taxes in the industrial sector and the formation of a government with a more technical aspect, in his image and his resemblance. During the transition, however, he did not fail to show his incisive facet against Jose Eliton and Marconi Perillo's legacy.

But what will the new government look like? For the political scientist Pedro Celio Alves Borges, the answer is still unknown, the same opinion as his colleague, the political scientist Itami Campos, researcher at Vela República de Goiás, Lena Castello Branco and Itami report) say that caiadismo will not come back to power with Ronaldo. They feel that the politics have changed, that the times are different and that there is more room for the kind of politics commanded by Totó Caiado.