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Marcelo Freixo
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 February 2007
Personal details
Born (1967-04-12) 12 April 1967 (age 57)
Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Political partyPSOL
Alma materFluminense Federal University
Profession

Marcelo Ribeiro Freixo (Template:IPA-pt) is a Brazilian communist politician, broadcaster and professor. He is in the second year of his third term as state representative for Rio Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL). He is the current chairman of the Defence Human Rights and Citizenship ALERJ.

Freixo gained national notoriety when he presided over the parliamentary inquiry commission on police militias in Rio de Janeiro, having a character inspired on him in the Brazilian film Tropa de Elite 2, 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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