Roberto de Lucena (born 18 April 1966) is a Brazilian politician as well as a writer and pastor. He has spent his political career representing São Paulo, having served as federal deputy representative since 2011.[1]

Roberto de Lucena
Roberto de Lucena (right) in September 2016
Federal Deputy for São Paulo
Assumed office
1 February 2011
Personal details
Born (1966-04-18) 18 April 1966 (age 58)
Santa Isabel, São Paulo, Brazil
Political partyPV (2009–2018)
PODE (2018–)

Personal life edit

He is the son of Antonio Vieira de Lucena and Eunice Alves de Lucena.[1] In addition to being a politician, de Lucena is a writer and a pastor of the Igreja Evangélica Pentecostal O Brasil Para Cristo.[2][3]

Political career edit

Lucena voted in favor of the impeachment motion of then-president Dilma Rousseff.[4] He voted in favor of tax reforms but against the 2017 Brazilian labor reform,[5] and voted in favor of opening a corruption investigation into Rousseff's successor Michel Temer.[6]

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Roberto de Lucena – Biografia". Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  2. ^ "Pastor Roberto de Lucena comemora aprovação do Projeto de lei" (in Portuguese). 16 September 2015. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  3. ^ "Roberto de Lucena presta homenagem à Igreja O Brasil para Cristo pelo seu 58º aniversário de fundação" (in Portuguese). 11 March 2014. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "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 1 July 2019.
  6. ^ "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.