Lincoln Portela | |
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Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
Assumed office 1 January 1999 | |
Constituency | Minas Gerais |
First Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies | |
In office 25 May 2022 – 1 February 2023 | |
Preceded by | Marcelo Ramos |
Succeeded by | Marcos Pereira |
Personal details | |
Born | Lincoln Dinz Portela 3 November 1953 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Political party | PL (since 2018) |
Other political affiliations | |
Occupation | Radio host and evangelical pastor |
Lincoln Dinz Portela (born 3 November 1953) is a Brazilian politician, television and radio personality as well as an evangelical pastor. He has spent his political career representing Minas Gerais, having served as state representative since 1999. [1]
Portela worked for three years on the Record TV Network from 1996 to 1998 appearing on the program Record News. As a radio broadcaster he has run the "Espaço Aberto" program on 88.7 FM broadcast in Belo Horizonte. [2] In addition Portela is an evangelical pastor of the Solidarity Baptist Church (Igreja Batista Solidária). [2]
During his early political career Portela was affiliated with and/or received endorsements from the PST, PSL, and PL; in 2007 Portela formally joined the Brazilian Republican Party or PRB. [1]
Although homeschooling has been prohibited in Brazil since the 1990s, in 2013 Portela proposed a bill that would legalize homeschooling if parents followed educational guidelines approved by the state. [3] The bill was ultimately rejected, with Brazilian Supreme Court ruling for the second time that homeschooling was illegal in 2018. [4]
Portela voted in favor of the impeachment against then-president Dilma Rousseff. [5] Portela voted against the Brazil labor reform (2017), and would later vote for a corruption investigation in Rousseff's successor Michel Temer. [6]