Cléber Verde

Cléber Verde
Cléber Verde
	Verde in 2007
Federal Deputy for Maranhão
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 1 February 2007
Vereador for São Luís
	In office; 1 January 1997 – 31 January 2007
Personal details
Born	10 May 1972; Santa Luzia, Maranhão, Brazil
Political party	PRB (2007–); PTB (2007); PAN (1999–2007); PST (1998–1999); PV (1996–1998); PT (1989–1996)
Profession	writer, professor, lawyer, civil servant

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]

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References

"CLEBER VERDE – Biografia". Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 13 March 2019.
"Igreja Universal 'concentra' seus deputados no PRB" (in Portuguese). Estadão. 14 November 2009. Retrieved 13 March 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). O Globo. 2 August 2017. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
"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.

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[bio-1] "CLEBER VERDE – Biografia". Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 13 March 2019.

[prb-2] "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.