Cléber Verde

Brazilian politician
Cléber Verde
Verde in 2007
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 February 2007
ConstituencyMaranhão
City Councillor of Maranhão
In office
1 January 2001 – 1 February 2007
ConstituencyAt-large
Personal details
Born
Cléber Verde Cordeiro Mendes

(1972-05-10) 10 May 1972 (age 52)
Santa Luzia, Maranhão, Brazil
Political partyMDB (since 2023)
Other political
affiliations
  • PT (1989–1995)
  • PV (1995–1997)
  • PST (1997–1998)
  • PAN (1998–2007)
  • PTB (2007)
  • Republicanos (2007–2023)
ProfessionLawyer, writer, teacher

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.