Vicente Paulo da Silva (born 8 April 1956) more commonly known as Vicentinho is a Brazilian politician as well as a syndicalist and trade union president. Although born in

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, he has spent his political career representing

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, having served as federal deputy representative since 2003.

Personal life

Vicentinho is the son of Francisco Germano da Silva and Maria Jeronimo da Silva. Prior to entering politics he was the head of

syndicalist Syndicalism is a revolutionary current within the left-wing of the labor movement that seeks to unionize workers according to industry and advance their demands through strikes with the eventual goal of gaining control over the means of pr ...

organization in São Paulo and was the president for 36 years of a trade union called "Central Única dos Trabalhadores" (CUT) that campaigned for wage equality.

Political career

Vicentinho voted against the impeachment motion of then-president

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and political reformation. He would later vote in favor of opening a similar corruption investigation against Rousseff's successor

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, and voted against the

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. Vicentinho was investigated during

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for allegedly taking R$ 30,000 in bribes from

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References

1956 births Living people People from Rio Grande do Norte Syndicalists Brazilian trade unionists Workers' Party (Brazil) politicians Brazilian politicians of African descent Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Brazil) from São Paulo Members of the Legislative Assembly of São Paulo {{Brazil-politician-stub