André Franco Montoro was a Brazilian politician

Politician

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 and lawyer

Lawyer

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. He was born in São Paulo

São Paulo

São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...

 as the son of André de Blois Montoro and Tomásia Alijostes. He was a senator and governor

Governor

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 of São Paulo

São Paulo (state)

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. He was a member of several parties, such as PDC

Christian Democratic Party (Brazil)

The Syndicalist Popular Party was a political party in Brazil founded in 1945. The PDC, a small party supporting traditional Christian values, never achieved electoral success and was banned by the military dictatorship in 1965....

, MDB

Brazilian Democratic Movement

The Brazilian Democratic Movement was a political party in Brazil that existed from 1965 to 1979. It was formed in 1965, when the military government that overthrew President João Goulart abolished all existing political parties...

, Party of Brazilian Democratic Movement and one of the founders of PSDB. He was also a law

Law

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 philosopher and a professor at PUC-SP, who wrote several law books.
Montoro is credited as being one of the key figures in the Diretas Já

Diretas Já

Diretas Já Now) was a civil unrest movement which, in 1984, demanded direct presidential elections in Brazil.-Participants of the movement: The movement brought together diverse elements of Brazilian society. Participants came from a broad spectrum of political parties, trade unions, civil,...

 movement, along with Tancredo Neves

Tancredo Neves

Tancredo de Almeida Neves, SFO more commonly Tancredo Neves was a Brazilian politician. He was born in São João del Rey, in the state of Minas Gerais, of mostly Portuguese, but also Austrian descent and graduated in law. The Neves family name comes from an Azorean great great grandfather...

 and Ulysses Guimarães, which helped to bring about the return of direct elections to Brazil.

The São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport is named after him.