Cléber Verde
Cléber Verde | |
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Federal Deputy for Maranhão | |
Assumed office 1 February 2007 | |
Vereador for São Luís | |
In office 1 January 1997 – 31 January 2007 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Santa Luzia, Maranhão, Brazil | 10 May 1972
Political party | PRB (2007–) PTB (2007) PAN (1999–2007) PST (1998–1999) PV (1996–1998) PT (1989–1996) |
Profession | Writer, professor, lawyer, civil servant |
Cléber Verde Cordeiro Mendes (born 10 May 1972) more commonly known as Cléber Verde is a Brazilian politician. He has spent his political career representing Maranhão, having served as state representative since 2007.[1]
Personal life[]
Verde is the son of Jesuino Cordeiro Mendes and Maria da Graça Cordeiro Mendes.[1] Aside from being a politician Verde has worked as a college professor, lawyer, writer, and civil servant.[1] Verde is a member of the Assembleias de Deus, one of the few members of the church in the IURD dominated republican party.[2]
Political career[]
After having represented mostly left-wing parties throughout his political career, Verde joined the religious right-wing Brazilian Republican Party in 2007.[2]
Verde voted in favor of the impeachment of then-president Dilma Rousseff.[3] Verde voted in favor of the 2017 Brazilian labor reform,[4] and would vote against a corruption investigation into Rousseff's successor Michel Temer.[5]
References[]
- ^ a b c "CLEBER VERDE – Biografia". Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 13 March 2019.
- ^ a b "Igreja Universal 'concentra' seus deputados no PRB" (in Portuguese). Estadão. 14 November 2009. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
- ^ "Reforma trabalhista: como votaram os deputados" (in Portuguese). Carta Capital. 27 April 2017. Archived from the original on 9 April 2012. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
- ^ "Veja como deputados votaram no impeachment de Dilma, na PEC 241, na reforma trabalhista e na denúncia contra Temer" [See how deputies voted in the impeachment of Dilma, in PEC 241, in the labor reform and in the denunciation against Temer] (in Portuguese). O Globo. 2 August 2017. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
- ^ "Como votou cada deputado sobre a denúncia contra Temer" (in Portuguese). Carta Capital. 4 August 2017. Archived from the original on 9 April 2012. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
- 1972 births
- Living people
- Brazilian educators
- Brazilian lawyers
- Brazilian Pentecostals
- Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Brazil) from Maranhão
- Members of the Legislative Assembly of Maranhão
- People from Maranhão
- Republicans (Brazil) politicians
- Brazilian Labour Party (current) politicians
- Green Party (Brazil) politicians
- Workers' Party (Brazil) politicians