About Tarso Genro Tarso Fernando Herz Genro is a Brazilian politician, and a member of the Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores). As a result of the Mensalão scandal, Genro served the remainder of José Genoíno's term as party president in 2005. Ricardo Berzoini was elected to the post later that year. Following his service as interim president, Genro was a top political adviser to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the current President of Brazil, during the contentious, but quite successful, 2006 Presidential campaign. On 16 March, 2007, he became the new Minister of Justice in Lula's cabinet. He is the former mayor of Porto Alegre, the capital city of Rio Grande do Sul, and is expected to be a 2010 candidate for the governorship there.