Cléber Verde

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Cléber Verde
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Verde in 2007
Federal Deputy for Maranhão
Assumed office
1 February 2007
Vereador for São Luís
In office
1 January 1997 – 31 January 2007
Personal details
Born (1972-05-10) 10 May 1972 (age 49)
Santa Luzia, Maranhão, Brazil
Political partyPRB (2007–)
PTB (2007)
PAN (1999–2007)
PST (1998–1999)
PV (1996–1998)
PT (1989–1996)
ProfessionWriter, 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[]

  1. ^ a b c "CLEBER VERDE – Biografia". Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Igreja Universal 'concentra' seus deputados no PRB" (in Portuguese). Estadão. 14 November 2009. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "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.
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