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Marcelo Freixo
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Freixo in 2022
Chair of the Brazilian Tourist Board
Assumed office
12 January 2023
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Minister Daniela Carneiro
Celso Sabino
Preceded by Gilson Machado Neto
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
1 February 2019 – 12 January 2023
Constituency Rio de Janeiro
State Deputy of Rio de Janeiro
In office
1 January 2007 – 1 January 2019
Constituency At-large
Personal details
Born
Marcelo Ribeiro Freixo

(1967-04-12) 12 April 1967 (age 57)
São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Political party PT (1986–2005; 2023–present)
Other political
affiliations
  • PSOL (2005–2021)
  • PSB (2021–2023)


Spouse
Antonia Pellegrino
(m. 2019)
Children 2
Alma mater Fluminense Federal University (BA)
Profession
  • Historian
  • politician
  • teacher
  • television presenter

Marcelo Ribeiro Freixo ([maʁˈsɛlu ʁiˈbejɾu ˈfɾejʃu]) is a Brazilian politician and teacher affiliated to the Workers' Party (PT). He had served as a federal deputy for the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB), and was formerly chairman of the Defence of Human Rights and Citizenship Commission on the Rio de Janeiro Legislative Assembly.

Freixo gained national attention when he presided over a parliamentary inquiry commission on police militias in Rio de Janeiro, having a character inspired on him in the Brazilian film Elite Squad: The Enemy Within, directed by José Padilha.

He ran for mayor of Rio de Janeiro twice, in 2012 and 2016, having as vice-mayor candidate on the ticket in 2016 the lawyer and professor at UFRJ Luciana Boiteux. He ended in second in both the run-offs, losing the first to Eduardo Paes from PMDB, and the second to the PRB candidate Marcelo Crivella.

On 16 June 2021, Freixo left PSOL for PSB, in preparation for the 2022 Rio de Janeiro gubernatorial election. He left the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) and joined the Workers' Party (PT) in January 2023.

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