José Medeiros | |
Office: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies |
Term Start: | 1 January 2019 |
Constituency: | Mato Grosso |
Office1: | Senator for Mato Grosso |
Term Start1: | 1 February 2011 |
Term End1: | 1 February 2019 |
Birth Name: | José Antonio Medeiros |
Birth Date: | 19 March 1970 |
Birth Place: | Caicó, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil |
Party: | PL (since 2022) |
Profession: | Federal highway police officer |
José Antonio Medeiros (born 19 March 1970) is a Brazilian politician. He had represented Mato Grosso in the Federal Senate from 2015 to 2019 and is currently member of the Chamber of Deputies. He is a member of the Liberal Party (PL).
Medeiros is a devout member of the Presbyterian church.[1]
Medeiros voted in favor of the impeachment against then-president Dilma Rousseff.[2] Medeiros voted in favor of the 2017 Brazilian labor reform, and would later back Rousseff's successor Michel Temer against a similar corruption investigation and impeachment motion.[3]