Ezequiel Teixeira

Ezequiel Teixeira
Teixeira in April 2016
Federal Deputy for Rio de Janeiro
In office
1 February 2015 – 31 January 2019
Personal details
Born (1955-05-25) 25 May 1955 (age 69)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Political partySP
Professionpastor, lawyer

Ezequiel Teixeira (born 25 February 1955) is a Brazilian politician as well as a lawyer and pastor. He has spent his political career representing Rio de Janeiro, having been a state representative from 2015 to 2019.[1]

Personal life

Teixeira is the son of João de Lourdes Teixeira and Maria Cortaz Teixeira.[1] He is married to Márcia Teixeira and has a daughter named Tatiana Teixeira. He is one of the pastors of an evangelical Christian church Projeto Vida Nova in Nilópolis.[2]

Political career

Teixeira voted in favor of the impeachment of then-president Dilma Rousseff.[3] Teixeira voted in favor of the 2017 Brazilian labor reform,[4] and voted against a corruption investigation into Rousseff's successor, Michel Temer.[5]

There was some controversy when then governor of Rio de Janeiro Luiz Fernando Pezão nominated Teixeira as Secretariat of Human Rights in 2016. LGBT rights groups such as Rio Sem Homofobia protested against the decision as Teixeira hasd supported conversion therapy in his church.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b "EZEQUIEL TEIXEIRA – Biografia" (in Portuguese). Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  2. ^ "Ap. Ezequiel Teixeira" (in Portuguese). Projeto Vida Nova em Nilópolis. Archived from the original on 18 January 2019. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  3. ^ "Reforma trabalhista: como votaram os deputados" [Labor reform: how deputies voted]. Carta Capital (in Portuguese). 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]. O Globo (in Portuguese). 2 August 2017. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  5. ^ "Como votou cada deputado sobre a denúncia contra Temer" [How each deputy voted on the complaint against Temer]. Carta Capital (in Portuguese). 4 August 2017. Archived from the original on 9 April 2012. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
  6. ^ Seara, Berenice; Paiva, Fabiana (17 February 2016). "Pezão exonera Ezequiel Teixeira, o pastor-secretário que diz acreditar na 'cura gay'" [Pezão dismisses Ezequiel Teixeira, the pastor-secretary who says he believes in a 'gay cure']. Extra Globo (in Portuguese). Retrieved 18 March 2019.