Eunício Lopes de Oliveira (born 30 September 1952) is a Brazilian politician and businessman. He has represented
Ceará
Ceará (, pronounced locally as or ) is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic coast. It is the eighth-largest Brazilian State by population and the 17th by area. It is also one of the ...
in the
Federal Senate
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since 2011 and became president of the
Senate of Brazil
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on 1 February 2017. Previously, he was a federal congressman representing Ceará from 1999 to 2011. He is a member of the
Brazilian Democratic Movement Party
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.
He was candidate running for
Governor of Ceará in 2014. He is mentioned in 2017 among the beneficiaries of bribes from the multinational
JBS.
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Living people
1952 births
Presidents of the Federal Senate (Brazil)
Members of the Federal Senate (Brazil)
Brazilian Democratic Movement politicians
People from Ceará
Brazilian businesspeople
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