Eduardo Leite confirms separation from doctor Thalis Bolzan

The couple Eduardo Leite and Thalis Bolzan Personal Archive/Thalis Bolzan The governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Eduardo Leite (PSD), confirmed the end of the relationship with doctor Thalis Bolzan. They had made their stable union official at the beginning of 2024, after a relationship that became public in 2021. In the statement that the politician's office sent to g1, Leite states that the two decided to "follow different paths" and highlighted that the decision was made with mutual respect, affection and admiration. Leite spoke in July 2021, for the first time publicly, about his sexual orientation in an interview with the program Conversa com Bial, on TV Globo. The governor's position generated approval from supporters and oppositionists. "In Brazil, with little integrity at the moment, we need to debate what we are. So that it is clear and there is nothing to hide. I am gay. I am a gay governor, I am not a gay governor", Leite declared at the time. In the statement about the separation, the politician stated that the decision was made by mutual agreement and asked for respect for the former couple's privacy. Eduardo Leite enters into a stable union with a doctor and jokes about marriage: 'I can't afford it'