State Deputy Eduardo Suplicy (PT-SP) confirmed via social media that he will participate in the São Silvestre International Race, on December 31, in São Paulo. This will be the third time that the PT member has participated in the traditional 15 kilometer race. He ran for the first time in 1988 then in 2001. At 84 years old, Suplicy will participate in the 100th edition of the competition.
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“For the third time, I will participate in @sao_silvestre, this year in its 100th edition. I am very happy to end the year in good health. Heading to 2026. I am ready!”, he wrote in the post.
In August, the state deputy suffered a cardiac arrhythmia while attending an event in Maricá. The PT member was rushed to Niterói Hospital, where it was found that he needed a pacemaker.
Despite his hospitalization, Suplicy maintained his program of participation in the Latin American Congress on Basic Income, held in the city of Rio de Janeiro.
In September 2023, Suplicy revealed that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and had begun treatment with medicinal cannabis. The PT member said the disease was detected at an early stage, with mild symptoms.
When he suffered from the arrhythmia, Suplicy was participating in the 24th Congress of the Earth Network of Basic Income (BIEN), which has the theme “Basic income and solidarity economy: new horizons for social protection” and is held in Maricá and Niterói, in the Rio metropolitan region. His fight for the establishment of universal basic income is still remembered as being of great importance in the fight against social inequalities, and his personality is described as “authentic”.
Elected with 807 thousand votes to the Legislative Assembly of São Paulo (Alesp) in 2022, Suplicy is one of the most popular parliamentarians of the PT. That year, for example, the most voted party name in the Chamber of Deputies was Gleisi Hoffmann, with 261,000 votes.
Economist, university professor and business administrator, Eduardo Matarazzo Suplicy was born in the capital of São Paulo on June 21, 1941. A senator for 24 years, he was first elected to this position by the Workers’ Party in 1990, then re-elected in 1998 and 2006. A graduate in business administration from the School of Business Administration of the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (EAESP/FGV) and Graduated in economics from Michigan State University (United States), he also completed a master’s degree and a doctorate (PhD) from the American institution.
In 2016, Suplicy received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL/Belgium). He was a visiting professor at Stanford University, USA, between the 1960s and 1970s and became a professor at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas School of Business Administration in 1966, where he became a full professor and taught until his retirement in 2012.
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