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

Miro Teixeira
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
1 February 1975 – 1 February 2019
ConstituencyRio de Janeiro
In office
1 February 1971 – 1 February 1975
ConstituencyGuanabara
Minister of Communications
In office
1 January 2003 – 1 January 2004
PresidentLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Preceded byJuarez Quadros
Succeeded byEunício Oliveira
Personal details
Born (1945-05-27) 27 May 1945 (age 79)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Political partyPDT (since 2021)
Other political
affiliations
See list
  • MDB (1971–1979)
  • PP (1980–1981)
  • PMDB (1981–1991)
  • PDT (1991–2003)
  • PPS (2004)
  • PT (2004)
  • PDT (2005–2013)
  • PROS (2013–2015)
  • REDE (2015–2021)
Alma materCandido Mendes University
National Autonomous University of Mexico
OccupationLawyer, journalist

Background

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

Political career

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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

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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.
Political offices
Preceded by
Juarez Martinho Quadros do Nascimento
Minister of Communications
2003–2004
Succeeded by