Otoni de Paula

Otoni de Paula
de Paula in June 2019
Federal Deputy for Rio de Janeiro
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 February 2019
Alderman for Niterói
In office
1 January 2017 – 30 January 2019
Personal details
Born (1976-11-22) 22 November 1976 (age 48)
Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Political partyPSC

Otoni Moura de Paula Júnior (born 22 November 1976) is a Brazilian politician and pastor. He has spent his political career representing Rio de Janeiro, having served as federal deputy representative since 2019.[1]

Personal life

He is the son of politician and social worker Otoni de Paula Pai. De Paula is also the nephew of the evangelical singer Ozéias de Paula who was part of the gospel duo Otoniel & Ozie, composed of him and Feliciano Amaral. He, his father, and his uncle are all pastors and singers of the Assembleias de Deus church.[2]

Political career

From 2017 to 2019 de Paula served as a Vereador or councilman for the city of Rio de Janeiro. In June 2018 he led an impeachment attempt on mayor Marcelo Crivella. Although both evangelical politicians with socially conservative views, de Paula claimed that Crivella was privileging the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God and trying to convert Rio de Janeiro to that denomination.[3]

In the 2018 election de Paula was in the top ten most voted candidate in the state of Rio de Janeiro, being elected to the federal chamber of deputies.[4] His father also ran in the elections under the banner of the Solidariedade party, but was not elected.[5]

In July 2019 de Paula announced that he was running as a candidate for the PSC in the 2020 Rio de Janeiro mayoral election.[6][7]

He's being investigated at the case of "Hate Office", and spent public money to finance fake news.[8]


References

  1. ^ "Otoni de Paula – Biografia". Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  2. ^ "Ozéias de Paula e Esteves Jacinto louvam no 27º Congresso de Jovens em Delmiro Gouveia" (in Portuguese). 8 March 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  3. ^ Salgado, Daniel (17 July 2018). "TRE-RJ mira pastor do PSC que convocou fiéis para lançamento de pré-candidatura" (in Portuguese). O Globo. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  4. ^ "Otoni de Paula 2050 PSC - Rio de Janeiro - Eleições 2018" (in Portuguese). Estadão. 8 October 2018. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
  5. ^ "Otoni de Paula Pai 77200 SOLIDARIEDADE - Rio de Janeiro - Eleições 2018" (in Portuguese). Estadão. 8 October 2018. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
  6. ^ "Apoio de Witzel a candidato de Bolsonaro à prefeitura do Rio em 2020 é incerto". O Globo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 23 July 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  7. ^ Freire, Quintino Gomes (1 August 2019). "Benedita pode ser a candidata a prefeita do Rio em 2020". Diário do Rio de Janeiro (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 1 August 2019.
  8. ^ "Deputado pagou R$ 238 mil a empresa acusada de disparar mensagens em massa". Metrópoles (in Brazilian Portuguese). 24 June 2020. Retrieved 25 June 2020.


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