Yuri Alemao | |
Birth Name: | Yuri Lenon Elias Alemao |
Caption: | Alemao in July 2022 |
Birth Date: | 16 November 1984 |
Birth Place: | Margao, Goa, India |
Office: | Leader of the Opposition of Goa Legislative Assembly |
Term Start: | 30 September 2022[1] |
Predecessor: | Michael Lobo |
Office1: | Member of the Goa Legislative Assembly |
Constituency1: | Cuncolim |
Term Start1: | 10 March 2022 |
Predecessor1: | Clafasio Dias |
Office2: | Leader of the Congress Legislature Party |
Term2: | 20 September 2022 |
Predecessor2: | Michael Lobo |
Party: | Indian National Congress |
Spouse: | Fatima Fernandes Alemao |
Children: | 1 |
Education: | Secondary School Certificate (S.S.C.) |
Profession: | Businessman |
Relatives: |
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Residence: | Cuncolim, Goa, India |
Occupation: | Politician |
Yuri Lenon Elias Alemao (born 16 November 1984)[2] is an Indian politician and businessman. He is the current member of the Goa Legislative Assembly from the Cuncolim Assembly constituency. Alemao won the Cuncolim Constituency on Indian National Congress in 2022 Goa Legislative Assembly election.[3] He defeated former MLA Clafasio Dias of the Bharatiya Janata Party by a margin of 6,632 votes. On 20 September 2022, he was appointed the Congress Legislature party leader in Goa Assembly.[4]
Yuri Lenon Alemao was born to Joaquim Alemao, the former Urban development minister and MLA of Cuncolim Assembly Constituency, in Carmona, Goa. He completed his Secondary School Certificate from Goa and has a commercial pilot licence from Basair Aviation College, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia from 2006.[5]
Alemao is married to Fatima Fernandes Alemao (née Fernandes), the couple have a son.[6] He currently resides in Cuncolim, Goa.