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Mr Maluf, a conservative, is Sao Paulo's weightiest and most controversial politician, a former governor in the days of military rule and, both earlier and later, mayor of Sao Paulo city.
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Mr Rossi, a 58-year-old lawyer, has cast himself as an anti-establishment outsider, despite a long political career that has featured stints as a federal congressman and as mayor of Osasco, an industrial suburb of Sao Paulo city, and has seen him switch parties four times and churches thrice (he is currently an evangelical Protestant).
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Prison gangs in Sao Paulo state penitentiaries brought Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo, to a standstill last May when they used cells phones in jail to order their foot soldiers on the outside to attack police stations.
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