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Walter Alves

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Walter Alves
Vice-governor of Rio Grande do Norte
Assumed office
1 January 2023
GovernorFátima Bezerra
Preceded byAntenor Roberto [pt]
Federal deputy of Rio Grande do Norte
In office
1 February 2015 – 1 January 2023
State deputy of Rio Grande do Norte
In office
1 February 2007 – 31 January 2015
Personal details
Born
Walter Alves Pereira

(1980-02-27) 27 February 1980 (age 44)
Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Political partyMDB (2003–present)
SpouseCarol Alves
Children2
Parent
RelativesAluízio Alves (great-uncle)
Garibaldi Alves (grandfather)
Carlos Eduardo Alves (cousin)
Ana Catarina Alves (cousin)
Henrique Eduardo Alves (cousin)

Walter Pereira Alves (born 27 February 1980) is a Brazilian administrator and politician who is affiliated with the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB). He is currently the vice governor of the state of Rio Grande do Norte as of 1 January 2023, with Fátima Bezerra as governor. He was also a state deputy and a federal deputy.

Born in Natal, he is the son of former governor and senator Garibaldi Alves Filho and Denise Pereira Alves.[1]

Political career

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Alves began his political career as a state deputy in Rio Grande do Norte as part of the PMDB in 2006.

In 2010, he was reelected. He was elected a federal deputy in 2014. As a federal deputy, he voted in favor of the impeachment proceedings against president Dilma Rousseff.[2] During the Michel Temer administration, he voted in favor of the Constitutional Amendment of the Public Expenditure Cap.[2] In August 2017, he voted against the opening of a similar investigation into president Michel Temer, helping to archive the complaint by the Public Prosecutor's Office.[2][3]

References

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  1. ^ Biografia de Walter Alves (PMDB)
  2. ^ a b c "Veja como deputados votaram no impeachment de Dilma, na PEC 241, na reforma trabalhista e na denúncia contra Temer". G1. 2 August 2017. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
  3. ^ Carta Capital (3 August 2017). "Como votou cada deputado sobre a denúncia contra Temer". Retrieved 30 October 2024.