Miro Teixeira
Politician
1945 –
Who is Miro Teixeira?
Miro Teixeira - Brazilian lawyer, politician and journalist.
Teixeira graduated in Law at the Universidade Cândido Mendes. He operates from a political base in Rio de Janeiro. He began his career with the Brazilian Democratic Movement, an opposition party to the military regime. At the start of the 1980s, together with Tancredo Neves he helped in the founding of the Partido Popular in a centrist initiative to balance the Brazil political landscape. Afterwards, he allied himself with Leonel Brizola and entered the Democratic Labour Party where he remained for two decades. In 1996 he was a candidate for the local district of Rio and achieved fourth place.
In 2002, he supported Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the Brazilian Presidential election and was nominated to be Minister of Communications. During his term as minister, he broke with PDT and entered the Workers' Party. In 2004 he was relieved of his position by Lula and assumed the mandate of a federal deputy in the Brazilian House where he remains to date.
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