Luiz Eduardo Greenhalgh | |
Office: | Federal Deputy from São Paulo |
Term Start: | January 2, 1997 |
Term End: | February 1, 2007 |
Office1: | Vice Mayor of São Paulo |
Term Start1: | January 1, 1989 |
Term End1: | January 1, 1993 |
1Blankname1: | Mayor |
1Namedata1: | Luiza Erundina |
Predecessor1: | Artur Alves Pinto |
Successor1: | Sólon Borges dos Reis |
Birth Name: | Luiz Eduardo Rodrigues Greenhalgh |
Birth Date: | 11 April 1948 |
Birth Place: | São Paulo, Brazil |
Party: | PT (1980–present) |
Otherparty: | MDB (1974–79) |
Occupation: | Lawyer Statesman |
Luiz Eduardo Greenhalgh is a Brazilian politician and one of the founders of the Workers' Party (PT). He also was the attorney of the Landless Workers' Movement (MST).[1] A founding member of PT, Greenhalgh was affiliated 1974–1980 to the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB), the party that previously represented the civilian opposition to the dictatorship. He was federal deputy for São Paulo and vice mayor of São Paulo in the government of Luiza Erundina (1989–1993).[2] He participated in the creation of a special committee, the Brazilian Committee of Solidarity with the Peoples of Latin America in 1980.