Only two months ago, Mr Covas looked doomed: opinion polls put him in fourth place.
Mr Covas played an important role in Brazil's return to democracy and economic stability.
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In October, Mario Covas, the governor of Sao Paulo state, publicly blasted his housing officials for their slowness.
Although irked at Mr Cardoso's rightward shift, Mr Covas always backed him when difficult reforms needed to be passed.
This week, Mr Cardoso vetoed that: it had enraged another of his allies, Mario Covas, governor of Sao Paulo, Brazil's ailing Detroit.
The election won, Mr Cardoso's most urgent task will be to shore up Brazil's defences against market turbulence by pushing through, Covas-style, fiscal austerity.
In rejecting this, Mr Covas saved the party and Mr Cardoso from being dragged down by the corruption that caused Mr Collor's downfall soon after.
Chastened, they rustled up 87 contracts, to build 10, 300 homes, which Mr Covas signed at a lavish ceremony on November 30th, while homeless groups protested outside his palace.
Now, as Mr Cardoso struggles to hold his coalition together, he faces losing another vital ally, Mario Covas, the governor of Sao Paulo state, who was gravely ill this week.
When Mr Cardoso became president in 1995 on the back of his inflation-beating plan, Mr Covas, elected governor of Sao Paulo, helped out by restoring the finances of Brazil's biggest state.
And though Mr Cardoso's ministers sometimes seemed afraid to defend their policies, Mr Covas relished taking on critics: last year, turning 70 and already in poor health, he had a series of public shouting-matches with striking state workers.
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