Hélio Leite | |
Office: | Federal Deputy for Pará |
Term Start: | 1 February 2015 |
Office1: | Mayor of Castanhal |
Term Start1: | 1 January 2005 |
Term End1: | 1 January 2013 |
Office2: | State Deputy of Pará |
Term Start2: | 1 February 1999 |
Term End2: | 1 January 2005 |
Office3: | Vice Mayor of Castanhal |
Term Start3: | 1 January 1997 |
Term End3: | 1 February 1999 |
Office4: | City Councilor for Castanhal |
Term Start4: | 1 January 1989 |
Term End4: | 1 January 1997 |
Birth Date: | 9 December 1956 |
Birth Place: | Castanhal, Pará, Brazil |
Party: | DEM (2012-present) |
Office5: | Alderman of Castanhal |
Term Start5: | 1 January 1989 |
Term End5: | 31 December 1996 |
Otherparty: | PL (2007-2012) MDB (1989-2007) |
Hélio Leite da Silva (born 9 December 1956) is a Brazilian politician and businessman. Born in Castanhal, he has served in the city council, deputy mayor and mayor, as well as state representative since 2015 for Pará.[1]
Leite voted in favor of the impeachment against then-president Dilma Rousseff and political reformation.[2] Leite would later back Rousseff's successor Michel Temer against a similar corruption investigation and impeachment motion.[3] Leite voted in favor of 2017 Brazil labor reform.[3]
In September 2018 Conselho Indigenista Missionário (Indian Missionary Council), an activists branch of the Catholic church for indigenous people of Brazil, named 50 Brazilian politicians who had done the most to weaken the rights of indigenous people in Brazil, of which Leite was included in.[4] [5]