Pedro Cunha Lima
Pedro Cunha Lima | |
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![]() Cunha Lima in November 2015 | |
Federal Deputy for Paraíba | |
In office 1 February 2014 – 31 January 2019 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Campina Grande, Brazil | 15 August 1988
Political party | PSDB |
Pedro Oliveira Cunha Lima (born 11 June 1988) is a Brazilian politician as well as a lawyer and writer. He has spent his political career representing Paraíba, having served in the state legislature from 2014 to 2019.[1]
Personal life[]
Cunha Lima is the son of Cássio Rodrigues da Cunha Lima and Silvia Almeida de Oliveira.[1] He comes from a political family of Paraíba, hisn senator Cássio Cunha Lima is a former senator, and his grandfather Ronaldo Cunha Lima was the governor of Paraíba. On his mother's side he is the great-grandson of the former mayor of Campina Grande, . He studied law at the Centro Universitário de João Pessoa and entered the Brazilian Bar Association. He earned his master's degree studying constitutional law at the University of Coimbra in Portual.[2]
Political career[]
Cunha Lima was the most voted candidate in Paraíba for Federal Deputy at the 2014 Brazilian general election, receiving 179,886 votes or 9.29% of the total ballot.[3]
Cunha Lima voted in favor of the impeachment motion of then-president Dilma Rousseff.[4] He voted in favor raising the spending ceiling of Brazil's government and the 2017 Brazilian labor reforms[5] Cunha Lima voted in favor of opening a similar corruption investigation into Rousseff's successor Michel Temer.[6]
In May 2019, during the PSDB National Convention, he was elected president of the Teotônio Vilela Institute, the party's political formation body.[7]
References[]
- ^ a b "PEDRO CUNHA LIMA – Biografia". Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 13 February 2019.
- ^ "Cássio vai a Portugal para colocação de grau do filho Pedro e volta com o jovem para começar campanha na Paraíba" (in Portuguese). S1 Portal. 22 May 2014. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
- ^ "Pedro Cunha Lima é o deputado federal mais votado na Paraíba". Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil (in Portuguese). 6 October 2014. Retrieved 13 February 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). G1 Globo. 2 August 2017. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Pedro Cunha Lima é eleito presidente do Instituto Teotônio Vilela" (in Portuguese). Portal T5. 1 May 2019. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
- 1988 births
- Living people
- People from Campina Grande
- University of Coimbra alumni
- Brazilian lawyers
- Brazilian Social Democracy Party politicians
- Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Brazil) from Paraíba