Miro Teixeira

Miro Teixeira
Miro Teixeira
Federal Deputy
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 1 February 1987
Constituency	Rio de Janeiro
	In office; 1 February 1971 – 1 February 1983
Constituency	Rio de Janeiro
Minister of Communication
	In office; 1 January 2003 – 1 January 2004
President	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Preceded by	Juarez Martinho Quadros do Nascimento
Succeeded by	Eunício Oliveira
Personal details
Born	Miro Teixeira; 27 May 1945 (age 79); Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Political party	REDE (2015–present) ; PROS (2013–2015) ; PDT (2005–2013) ; PT (2005) ; PPS (2004–2005) ; PDT (1989–2004) ; PP (1980–1981) ; MDB (1966–1979)
Alma mater	Brasília University Center (UniCEUB) ; Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV)
Occupation	Lawyer, journalist

Miro Teixeira (born May 27, 1945) is a Brazilian lawyer, politician and journalist.^[1]

Background

Teixeira graduated in Law at the Universidade Cândido Mendes. He operates from a political base in Rio de Janeiro.

Political career

He began his career with the Brazilian Democratic Movement (Movimento Democrático Brasileiro), an opposition party to the military regime. At the start of the 1980s, together with Tancredo Neves he helped in the founding of the Partido Popular in a centrist initiative to balance the Brazil political landscape. Afterwards, he allied himself with Leonel Brizola and entered the Democratic Labour Party (PDT) where he remained for two decades. In 1996 he was a candidate for the local district of Rio and achieved fourth place.

In 2002, he supported Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the Brazilian Presidential election and was nominated to be Minister of Communications.^[2] During his term as minister, he broke with PDT and entered the Workers' Party. In 2004 he was relieved of his position by Lula and assumed the mandate of a federal deputy in the Brazilian House. In 2013 he was listed as a member in the party of former senator and 2010 and 2014 presidential candidate Marina Silva, Sustainability Network (REDE).

References

^ Hoge, Warren (20 January 1981). "BRAZIL OFF AND RUNNING FOR '82 ELECTION". The New York Times. p. 9. Retrieved 27 March 2011.
^ Cortes, Katia (13 June 2005). "Brazil Lower House Panel to Hear Jefferson, May Call Dirceu - Bloomberg". Bloomberg. Retrieved 27 March 2011.

Government offices
Preceded by Juarez Martinho Quadros do Nascimento	Minister of Communication 2003–2004	Succeeded by Eunício Oliveira

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[1] Hoge, Warren (20 January 1981). "BRAZIL OFF AND RUNNING FOR '82 ELECTION". The New York Times. p. 9. Retrieved 27 March 2011.

[2] Cortes, Katia (13 June 2005). "Brazil Lower House Panel to Hear Jefferson, May Call Dirceu - Bloomberg". Bloomberg. Retrieved 27 March 2011.

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