Pedro Paulo

Pedro Paulo Carvalho Teixeira, born in Brasília/DF on June 2, 1968, graduated in Business Administration from the University of Brasília (UnB) and holds an MBA in Public Management from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV). Before beginning his political career, Pedro Paulo worked as a public policy consultant and university professor.

Political career

Pedro Paulo began his political career in 2000 when he was elected city councilman in Rio de Janeiro for the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB). In 2006, he was elected state deputy for Rio de Janeiro with 45,302 votes. In 2014, he was elected federal deputy for the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB) with 135,581 votes and was re-elected in 2018 with 86,617 votes. In 2021, he joined the Social Democratic Party. Between 2021 and March 2022, he was Secretary of Finance for Rio de Janeiro. In the 2022 elections, he was again re-elected, this time with 105,193 votes.

Performance in the National Congress

During his term as a federal deputy, Pedro Paulo has been committed to promoting bills and initiatives aimed at improving public administration and economic development. Among his main achievements are:

• Rapporteur for the PEC (Proposed Constitutional Amendment) on the Spending Cap , which established a limit for federal government spending in 2016.
• Rapporteur of the Taxpayer Defense Code , which establishes more prerogatives for taxpayers in 2022.
• Author of the bill that restricted temporary releases for prisoners in 2023.
• Rapporteur of the bill that changes the rules for monetary adjustments and interest rates in 2024 .

In 2016 he voted in favor of the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff and in 2017 in favor of the labor reform . In 2019, Pedro Paulo was one of the main architects of the approval of the Pension Reform and in 2023 he voted in favor of the tax reform .