Eunício Oliveira | |
Office: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies |
Term Start: | 1 February 2023 |
Constituency: | Ceará |
Term Start1: | 14 July 2005 |
Term End1: | 1 February 2011 |
Constituency1: | Ceará |
Term Start2: | 1 February 1999 |
Term End2: | 23 January 2004 |
Constituency2: | Ceará |
Office3: | President of the Federal Senate |
Term Start3: | 1 February 2017 |
Term End3: | 1 February 2019 |
Predecessor3: | Renan Calheiros |
Successor3: | Davi Alcolumbre |
Office4: | Senator for Ceará |
Term Start4: | 1 February 2011 |
Term End4: | 1 February 2019 |
Predecessor4: | Tasso Jereissati |
Successor4: | Cid Gomes |
Office5: | Minister of Communications |
Term Start5: | 23 January 2004 |
Term End5: | 14 July 2005 |
President5: | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva |
Predecessor5: | Miro Teixeira |
Successor5: | Hélio Costa |
Birth Date: | 30 September 1952 |
Birth Place: | Lavras da Mangabeira, Ceará, Brazil |
Party: | MDB (1972–present) |
Profession: | Businessman |
Signature: | Decreto do Congresso Nacional (Intervenção na segurança do RIO em 2018.png |
Eunício Lopes de Oliveira (born 30 September 1952) is a Brazilian politician and businessman. He represent Ceará in the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil since February 2023. Previously, he was a federal congressman representing Ceará from 1999 to 2011 and Federal Senator representing the state from 2011 to 2019, becoming president of the Senate of Brazil from 1 February 2017 to 2019.[1]
He is a member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement.[2] He was candidate running for Governor of Ceará in 2014.
He is mentioned in 2017 among the beneficiaries of bribes from the multinational JBS..[3] In a plea bargain, Eunício was accused of having received two million reais in bribes from the Odebrecht Organization (now Novonor).[4]
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