Luiza Erundina de Sousa (Portuguese pronunciation: [luˈizɐ ɛɾũˈdʒinɐ dʒi ˈsowzɐ]; November 30, 1934) is a Brazilian politician, born in Uiraúna, a small city in the interior of the Brazilian state of Paraíba.

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Luiza Erundina
Erundina in 2016
Federal Deputy from São Paulo
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 February 1999
Secretary of the Federal Administration
In office 28 February 1993 – 20 May 1993
President	Itamar Franco
Preceded by	Osiris de Azevedo Lopes Filho
Succeeded by	Romildo Canhim
Mayor of São Paulo
In office 1 January 1989 – 1 January 1993
Vice Mayor	Luiz Eduardo Greenhalgh
Preceded by	Jânio Quadros
Succeeded by	Paulo Maluf
State Deputy of São Paulo
In office 15 March 1987 – 1 January 1989
City Councillor of São Paulo
In office 15 March 1983 – 15 March 1986
Personal details
Born	(1934-11-30) 30 November 1934 (age 89) Uiraúna, Paraíba, Brazil
Political party	PSOL (2016–present)
Other political affiliations	PT (1980–93) PSB (1993–2016)
Alma mater	Federal University of Paraíba
Profession	Social worker

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From 1980 to 1997, she was affiliated with the PT party (Workers’ Party). In 1997, she changed to the PSB party. Due to disagreements within PSB that decided to support the impeachment process against president Dilma Rousseff, Erundina switched to party PSOL in March 2016.^[1]

Erundina served on the São Paulo city council from 1983 to 1987. From 1987 to 1988 she was a state deputy for the state of São Paulo. She was São Paulo's mayor from 1989 to 1992, and is currently a federal deputy from São Paulo. She was re-elected in 2002 and again in 2006, in 2010, in 2014 and in 2018.

In the 2020 São Paulo mayoral election, Erundina ran as the vice mayoral candidate of Guilherme Boulos, also of PSOL.

Erundina was born to a very poor family. Notwithstanding the obstacles, she managed to pursue a Bachelor's degree in Social Service from Federal University of Paraíba. She also holds a Master's degree in Sociology from University of São Paulo.