Marcos Rogério | |
Office: | Senator for Rondônia |
Term Start: | 1 February 2019 |
Office1: | Senate DEM Leader |
Term Start1: | 1 February 2021 |
Predecessor1: | Rodrigo Pacheco |
Office2: | Federal Deputy from Rondônia |
Term Start2: | 1 February 2011 |
Term End2: | 1 February 2019 |
Office3: | City Councillor of Ji-Paraná |
Term Start3: | 1 January 2009 |
Term End3: | 1 February 2011 |
Birth Name: | Marcos Rogério da Silva Brito |
Birth Date: | 7 July 1978 |
Birth Place: | Ji-Paraná, Rondônia, Brazil |
Party: | UNIÃO (2022–present) |
Profession: | Journalist, Radio Personality |
Marcos Rogério da Silva Brito (born 7 July 1978) more commonly known as Marcos Rogério is a federal senator of Brazil representing his home state of Rondônia. He previously served in the chamber of deputies from 2011 to 2019.[1]
Marcos Rogério was born to Samuel Lopes de Brito and Maria Cecilia da Silva.[1] Prior to becoming a politician, Marcos Rogério worked as a journalist for Rede Globo. He is a graduate of Universidade Luterana do Brasil.[1] Marcos Rogério is an Evangelical Christian, and belongs to the Pentecostal denomination Assembleias de Deus.[2]
Marcos Rogério voted in favor of the impeachment motion of then-president Dilma Rousseff.[3] He would later vote in favor of opening a similar corruption investigation against Rousseff's successor Michel Temer,[4] and voted in favor of the 2017 Brazilian labor reforms.[5]
In the 2018 Brazilian general election Marcos Rogério was elected to the federal senate with 324,939 votes.[6] He was one of six new Evangelical members elected to the federal senate in that election.[7]