Eduardo Lopes | |
Office: | State Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock, Fishing and Supply of Rio de Janeiro |
Term Start: | 1 January 2019 |
Term End: | 4 October 2019 |
Predecessor: | Alex Grillo |
Successor: | Marcelo Queiroz |
Office1: | Senator for Rio de Janeiro |
Term Start1: | 1 January 2017 |
Term End1: | 1 February 2019 |
Predecessor1: | Marcelo Crivella |
Successor1: | Arolde de Oliveira |
Term Start2: | 6 March 2012 |
Term End2: | 14 March 2014 |
Predecessor2: | Marcelo Crivella |
Office3: | Minister of Fishing and Aquaculture |
Term Start3: | 17 March 2014 |
Term End3: | 1 January 2015 |
President3: | Dilma Rousseff |
Predecessor3: | Marcelo Crivella |
Successor3: | Helder Barbalho |
Birth Name: | Eduardo Benedito Lopes |
Birth Date: | 19 September 1964 |
Birth Place: | Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil |
Party: | Republicanos (2010–present) |
Otherparty: | PSB (2006–2010) |
Spouse: | Rosana Lopes |
Occupation: | Radio broadcaster |
Eduardo Benedito Lopes (born 19 September 1964, in Santo André) is a Brazilian politician and a member of the Brazilian Republican Party (PRB). He served as Minister of Fishing and Aquaculture in the government of Dilma Rousseff.[1]
Lopes was elected in 2010 as the first surrogate of senator Marcelo Crivella. Due to Crivella's resignation to assume the office of mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo assumed the office as permanent senator.
He is an evangelical and a member of the Pentecostal movement the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (IURD).[2]
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