| Lincoln Portela | |
| Office: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies |
| Term Start: | 1 January 1999 |
| Constituency: | Minas Gerais |
| Office1: | First Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies |
| Term Start1: | 25 May 2022 |
| Term End1: | 1 February 2023 |
| Predecessor1: | Marcelo Ramos |
| Successor1: | Marcos Pereira |
| Birth Name: | Lincoln Dinz Portela |
| Birth Date: | 3 November 1953 |
| Birth Place: | Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| Party: | PL (since 2018) |
| Occupation: | Radio host and evangelical pastor |
Lincoln Dinz Portela (born 3 November 1953) is a Brazilian politician, television and radio personality as well as an evangelical pastor. He has spent his political career representing Minas Gerais, having served as state representative since 1999.[1]
Portela worked for three years on the Record TV Network from 1996 to 1998 appearing on the program Record News. As a radio broadcaster he has run the "Espaço Aberto" program on 88.7 FM broadcast in Belo Horizonte.[2] In addition Portela is an evangelical pastor of the Solidarity Baptist Church (Igreja Batista Solidária).[2]
During his early political career Portela was affiliated with and/or received endorsements from the PST, PSL, and PL; in 2007 Portela formally joined the Brazilian Republican Party or PRB.[1]
Although homeschooling has been prohibited in Brazil since the 1990s, in 2013 Portela proposed a bill that would legalize homeschooling if parents followed educational guidelines approved by the state.[3] The bill was ultimately rejected, with Brazilian Supreme Court ruling for the second time that homeschooling was illegal in 2018.[4]
Portela voted in favor of the impeachment against then-president Dilma Rousseff.[5] Portela voted against the Brazil labor reform (2017), and would later vote for a corruption investigation in Rousseff's successor Michel Temer.[6]