Pedro Cunha Lima

Pedro Oliveira Cunha Lima (born 11 June 1988) is a Brazilian politician as well as a lawyer and writer. He has spent his political career representing Paraíba, having served in the state legislature from 2014 to 2019.^[1]

Pedro Cunha Lima
Cunha Lima in November 2015
Federal Deputy for Paraíba
In office 1 February 2014 – 31 January 2019
Personal details
Born	(1988-08-15) 15 August 1988 (age 36) Campina Grande, Brazil
Political party	PSDB

Personal life

Cunha Lima is the son of Cássio Rodrigues da Cunha Lima and Silvia Almeida de Oliveira.^[1] He comes from a political family of Paraíba, hisn senator Cássio Cunha Lima is a former senator, and his grandfather Ronaldo Cunha Lima was the governor of Paraíba. On his mother's side he is the great-grandson of the former mayor of Campina Grande, Elpídio Josué de Almeida. He studied law at the Centro Universitário de João Pessoa and entered the Brazilian Bar Association. He earned his master's degree studying constitutional law at the University of Coimbra in Portugal.^[2]

Political career

Cunha Lima was the most voted candidate in Paraíba for Federal Deputy at the 2014 Brazilian general election, receiving 179,886 votes or 9.29% of the total ballot.^[3]

Cunha Lima voted in favor of the impeachment motion of then-president Dilma Rousseff.^[4] He voted in favor raising the spending ceiling of Brazil's government and the 2017 Brazilian labor reforms^[5] Cunha Lima voted in favor of opening a similar corruption investigation into Rousseff's successor Michel Temer.^[6]

In May 2019, during the PSDB National Convention, he was elected president of the Teotônio Vilela Institute, the party's political formation body.^[7]

References

1. "PEDRO CUNHA LIMA – Biografia". Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 13 February 2019.
2. "Cássio vai a Portugal para colocação de grau do filho Pedro e volta com o jovem para começar campanha na Paraíba" (in Portuguese). S1 Portal. 22 May 2014. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
3. "Pedro Cunha Lima é o deputado federal mais votado na Paraíba". Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil (in Portuguese). 6 October 2014. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
4. "Reforma trabalhista: como votaram os deputados" (in Portuguese). Carta Capital. 27 April 2017. Archived from the original on 9 April 2012. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
5. "Veja como deputados votaram no impeachment de Dilma, na PEC 241, na reforma trabalhista e na denúncia contra Temer" [See how deputies voted in the impeachment of Dilma, in PEC 241, in the labor reform and in the denunciation against Temer] (in Portuguese). G1 Globo. 2 August 2017. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
6. "Como votou cada deputado sobre a denúncia contra Temer" (in Portuguese). Carta Capital. 4 August 2017. Archived from the original on 9 April 2012. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
7. "Pedro Cunha Lima é eleito presidente do Instituto Teotônio Vilela" (in Portuguese). Portal T5. 1 May 2019. Retrieved 13 February 2020.