Márcio Marinho | |
Office: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies |
Term Start: | 16 December 2008 |
Constituency: | Bahia |
Office1: | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Bahia |
Term Start1: | 1 February 2003 |
Term End1: | 1 February 2007 |
Constituency1: | At-large |
Birth Name: | Márcio Carlos Marinho |
Birth Date: | 12 December 1970 |
Birth Place: | Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Party: | Republicanos (since 2009) |
Profession: | Radio host |
Márcio Carlos Marinho (born 12 December 1970) is a Brazilian politician. Although born in Rio de Janeiro, he has spent his political career representing Bahia, having served as state representative since 2008.[1]
Marinho was born to Arindo Carlos Marinho and Izabel Rodrigues Marinho.[1] He grew up in a poor household and two of his brothers drowned when he was 14. Prior to becoming a politician Marinho worked as a communicator and public manager.[1] Marinho identifies as an Afro-Brazilian and as an Evangelical Christian.[2] He is an ordained bishop of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God.[3]
Marinho voted in favor of the impeachment against then-president Dilma Rousseff and political reformation.[4] He would later vote in against opening a corruption investigation against Rousseff's successor Michel Temer, and voted in favor of the 2017 Brazilian labor reforms.[5]