Gleisi Helena Hoffmann (; born 6 September 1965) is a Brazilian lawyer and a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil, representing the State of Paraná. She served as the Chief Minister of the Secretariat of Institutional Relations of the Government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from 2025 to 2026, and as the Chief of Staff of the Government of President Dilma Rousseff from 2011 to 2014. In 2017, she was elected a Senator for Paraná before becoming National President of the Workers' Party, a position she has held for nine years.
Biography Gleisi Hoffmann began her involvement in politics in the student movement during her youth, becoming a Workers' Party' member in 1989. She graduated in law in the Centro Universitário Curitiba (Faculdade de Direito de Curitiba).
Known for her public management skills, Hoffmann has served as state secretary in Mato Grosso do Sul and as municipal secretary in the city of Londrina.
She was a member of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's presidential transition team in 2002, and served as the financial director at the Itaipu Binacional hydroelectric dam from 2003 to 2006.
She ran for the Federal Senate of Brazil in 2006 and for the office of mayor of Curitiba in 2008, losing both elections. At the time, she was the president of PT in the state of Paraná.
In October 2010, Hoffmann was elected to the Senate, receiving over 3.1 million votes, the most voted senator from the state of Paraná and the first woman to hold the office. After four months in office, she was appointed Chief of Staff, the highest-ranking member of Brazil's Executive Office, by President Dilma Rousseff. During this period, the foundation of the (EBSERH), moving from which it suffered criticism from the Unified Socialist Workers’ Party, accusing the indirect management of hospitals as a form of privatization, denouncing the outsourcing and precariousness of the SUS, questioning the effectiveness and target audience of Gleisi Hoffmann’s feminist rhetoric.
In March 2025, Hoffman resigned as president of the Workers Party upon her appointment as Secretary of Institutional Affairs in the second Lula presidency.
Hoffmann was accused of receiving R$1.000.000,00 of embezzlement money from Petrobras in her campaign to the Senate in 2010. In 2018, Hoffmann was cleared of charges in the Supreme Court.
Gleisi was married to the ex-Communications Minister Paulo Bernardo; they divorced in 2019. They have two children.
Electoral history YearElectionPartyOfficeCoalitionPartnersPartyVotesPercentResult 2006 State Election of Paraná Senator United Paraná Nereu Faustino 2,299,088 45.14% rowspan=2 Shinji Gohara 2008 Municipal Election of Curitiba Mayor Curitiba for All Borges dos Reis 183,027 18.17% 2010 State Elections of Paraná Senator The Union Makes a New Tomorrow Sérgio Souza 3,196,468 29.50% rowspan=2 Pedro Tonelli 2014 State Elections of Paraná Governor Paraná Looking Forward Haroldo Ferreira 881,857 14.87% 2018 State Elections of Paraná Federal Deputy colspan=4 212,513 3.71% 2022 State Elections of Paraná colspan=4 261,247 4.26% 2026 State Elections of Paraná Senator Paraná For All Assis Gurgacz Neto 1,542,636 13.35% rowspan=2 Aldair Rizzi
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