Mayor’s Profile
Mayor Rubens Furlan Rubens Furlan was born in Sorocaba-SP on December 12, 1952. He is a Brazilian politician, trained in law and currently the mayor of Barueri. Furlan is married to Sônia Dias Furlan and father of four children, Priscila Furlan, Rubens Furlan Junior, Felipe Furlan and federal deputy Bruna Furlan.
Political Career
• Barueri City Counselor (1977-1982) • President of the City Counselor’s Chamber of Barueri from 1979 to 1981 • Mayor of Barueri (1983-1988, 1993-1996, 2005-2008, 2009-2012, 2017-2020) • State Congressman (1991-1992) • Federal Congressman (1998-2002)
Biography
By the age of 10, Rubens Furlan was already an early political agent. Always associated to politics, as a child, he was in charge of the delivery of newspapers in Sorocaba-SP with his brother. On Sundays, Furlan left to deliver the last copy to Mayor Artidoro Mascarenhas, also known as Doctor Pitoco, who always offered him an orange juice and invited him to talk. In these meetings, Rubens made a point of reporting what the people were saying about his performance. As a young man, already in Barueri, he participated actively in meetings of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB - before know as PMDB), occasions that allowed the assimilation of political oratory, improved over time. The plunge into political life, however, was thanks to the encouragement of Mother Beatrice in 1976. “Why don’t you run for councilman?” She asked. This simple question was enough for Rubens to start looking for support from prestigious politicians at the time. And it was in the former councilor, former mayor and favorite for the municipal elections that year Arnaldo Rodrigues Bittencourt, that the young man found space to run for councilman by the MDB resulting in the most voted councilman. From then on, his public life began to take shape. Two years later, Rubens Furlan took over the presidency of the town hall, replacing Wagih Sales Nemer, who had supported the candidacy and became a true friend who, sixteen years later, would become his deputy mayor. In 1982, Furlan’s words came true. He was declared mayor by the MDB after eight days of polling at the polls. He marries four days later with Sonia Furlan, his current wife.
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Two years after the end of his first term as mayor, in 1990, Rubens Furlan is confirmed as the fourth most voted state legislator in the state, gathering votes in cities like Carapicuiba, Jandira, Santos, São Vicente, Itu, among others. At this time, Furlan supported the candidacy of Luiz Antonio Fleury Filho, who became governor of the state and went on to visit the Furlan couple frequently in their new residence in Jardim Belval. In his second term, also taken over by the MDB in 1993, Rubens Furlan transformed Barueri into a real construction site: he created the Municipal Civil Guard, continued the fight to combat flooding with the blocking of parts of the Barueri-Mirim river, delivered 736 apartments of the Housing Set of Jardim Paulista, just to name a few. In 1998, Rubens ran for the Federal Deputy and won the third largest vote among the seventy federal deputies from São Paulo state. Rubens Furlan positioned Barueri as one of the five largest economies in the state, the leader in job creation and the city that receives the most industrial investments in the region. Barueri is one of eight cities in the state of São Paulo with excellent indications of wealth, longevity and schooling, with approximately 37 thousand national and multinational companies. In 2009, Barueri adopted the city of Berilo, in the Jequitinhonha Valley, for the third edition of “Barueri, Sou do Bem”, coordinated by Sônia Furlan. At the end of 2016, Rubens Furlan (PSDB) was elected to his fifth term as mayor of Barueri-SP, for the next four years. With 100% of the polls cleared, Furlan had 143,250 votes, which corresponds to 84.73% of the votes valid for the dispute.
