Joaquim Passarinho | |
Office: | Federal Deputy for Pará |
Term Start: | 1 February 2015 |
Office1: | Secretary of State for Public Works of Pará |
Term Start1: | 2011 |
Term End1: | 2014 |
Office2: | State representative for Pará |
Term Start2: | 2003 |
Term End2: | 3010 |
Office3: | Secretary of State for Public Works of Pará |
Term Start3: | 2002 |
Term End3: | 2003 |
Office4: | City Councilor for Belém |
Term Start4: | 1989 |
Term End4: | 2002 |
Birth Date: | 2 December 1961 |
Birth Place: | Belém, Pará, Brazil |
Party: | PSD |
Joaquim Passarinho Pinto de Souza Porto (born 2 December 1961) is a Brazilian politician and architect. Born in Belém, he has served in the state council, as well as state representative since 2015 for Pará.[1]
Passarinho studied architecture at university. He is a practicing Roman Catholic.[2] He is the nephew of former senator and governor of Pará, Jarbas Passarinho.[3]
Passarinho served on the city council of Belém, as well as serving in the state senate and having two separate stints of being Secretary of State for Public Works for the state of Pará, prior to being elected federal deputy.[1]
Passarinho voted in favor of the impeachment against then-president Dilma Rousseff and political reformation.[4] He would vote in favor of a similar corruption investigation into Rousseff's successor Michel Temer.[5] Passarinho voted in favor of the 2017 Brazil labor reform.[5]