Vinicius de Rapozo Carvalho (born 7 January 1966) is a Brazilian politician as well as a lawyer, radio personality, and pastor. Although born in

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, he has spent his political career representing

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, having served as state representative from 2007 to 2011 and since 2014.

Personal life

Carvalho is originally a lawyer, and is also a pastor of the neo-Pentecostal movement the

Universal Church of the Kingdom of God The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG; pt, Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus, IURD) is an evangelical charismatic Christian denomination with its headquarters at the Temple of Solomon in São Paulo, Brazil. The church was founded in ...

. Carvalho has his own radio show titled "Show da Cidadania" or "Show of Citizenship".

Political career

Carvalho voted in favor of the impeachment against then-president

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. Carvalho voted in favor of the 2017 Brazilian labor reform, and would later back Rousseff's successor

Michel Temer Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia (; born 23 September 1940) is a Brazilian politician, lawyer and writer who served as the 37th president of Brazil from 31 August 2016 to 31 December 2018. He took office after the impeachment and removal from off ...

against a similar impeachment motion. In late 2016 Carvalho proposed a bill that would make

polygamy Crimes Polygamy (from Late Greek (') "state of marriage to many spouses") is the practice of marrying multiple spouses. When a man is married to more than one wife at the same time, sociologists call this polygyny. When a woman is married ...

illegal in Brazil. The same bill regarded marriage as solely between a man and a woman, and would in theory make infidelity and same-sex partnerships illegal.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Carvalho, Vinicius 1966 births Living people Politicians from Rio de Janeiro (city) 20th-century Brazilian lawyers Republicans (Brazil) politicians Brazilian radio personalities Brazilian Pentecostal pastors Members of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Brazil) from São Paulo