Álvaro Costa Dias

Álvaro Costa Dias
Mayor of Natal
Assumed office
6 April 2018
Vice-mayornone (2017–2020)
Aila Cortez (2021–present)
Preceded byCarlos Eduardo Alves
Vice-mayor of Natal
In office
1 January 2017  6 April 2018
Preceded byWilma de Faria
Succeeded byAila Cortez (2021)
Federal deputy of Rio Grande do Norte
In office
1 February 2003  31 January 2007
President of the Legislative Assembly of Rio Grande do Norte
In office
1 February 1997  31 January 2003
Preceded byLeonardo Câmara
Succeeded byRobinson Faria
State deputy of Rio Grande do Norte
In office
1 February 1991  31 January 2003
In office
1 February 2007  31 January 2011
In office
1 February 2015  31 December 2016
Vice-mayor of Caicó
In office
1989–1990
Personal details
Born (1959-09-04) 4 September 1959
Caicó, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Political partyPMDB (1987–2003)
PDT (2003–2011)
MDB (2011–2020)
PSDB (2020–2022)
Republicanos (2022–present)
SpouseAmanda Diógenes Dias
Alma materFederal University of Rio Grande do Norte

Álvaro Costa Dias (born 4 September 1959), also known as just Álvaro Dias, is a Brazilian doctor and politician, affiliated with the Republicanos. He has been the mayor of the city of Natal since 2018.

He was elected vice-mayor of the city in the 2016 municipal elections, on the ticket led by Carlos Eduardo Alves of the Democratic Labour Party (PDT), but Dias assumed the position on 6 April 2018 after Alves' resignation. Before that, he was the vice-mayor of his hometown of Caicó, in the central region of the state of Rio Grande do Norte, and was a state deputy and federal deputy in and for the state of Rio Grande do Norte.