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Marcelo Freixo
Freixo in 2017.
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
for Rio de Janeiro
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 February 2019
Member of the
Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro
In office
1 January 2007 – 1 January 2019
Personal details
Born (1967-04-12) 12 April 1967 (age 57)
Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Political partyPSOL (Since 2005)
PT (1986–2005)
EducationFluminense Federal University
Profession

Marcelo Ribeiro Freixo (Portuguese pronunciation: [maʁˈsɛlw ʁjˈbejɾw ˈfɾejʃw]) is a Brazilian leftist politician, broadcaster and professor. He is a state representative for the Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL), and is chairman of the Defence of Human Rights and Citizenship Commission on the Rio de Janeiro Legislative Assembly.

Freixo gained national attention when he presided over a parliamentary inquiry commission on police militias in Rio de Janeiro, having a character inspired on him in the Brazilian film Elite Squad: The Enemy Within, directed by José Padilha.

He ran for mayor of Rio de Janeiro twice, in 2012 and 2016, having as vice-mayor candidate on the ticket in 2016 the lawyer and professor at UFRJ Luciana Boiteux. He ended in second in both the run-offs, losing the first to Eduardo Paes from PMDB, and the second to the PRB candidate Marcelo Crivella.

References

  1. Assembleia Legislativa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (2014). "Comissão de Defesa dos Direitos Humanos e Cidadania". Alerj. Retrieved 2014-08-09.
  2. "Freixo o verdadeiro fraga | Superinteressante". Superinteressante. 2011-03-25. Retrieved 2016-10-31.
  3. Phillips, Dominic (2012-09-17). "How Elite Squad 2 Took Control of Rio Mayor's Race". Bloomberg View. Retrieved 2016-10-31.
  4. "Paes é reeleito prefeito do Rio". Eleições 2012 no Rio de Janeiro (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2012-10-07. Retrieved 2017-10-26.
  5. "Resultado das Eleições 2016 - Prefeito - Rio de Janeiro-RJ | Gazeta do Povo". Gazeta do Povo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2016-10-31.
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