Paulo Teixeira (politician)
Luiz Paulo Teixeira Ferreira (born 6 May 1961), known as Paulo Teixeira, a Brazilian politician, lawyer, and professor who belongs to the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT, or Workers’ Party).He is currently a federal deputy in the lower house of the Brazilian Parliament, where he served as PT party leader in 2011 Teixeira, who is a brother of State Representative Luiz Fernando Teixeira, received a Master of Science in Constitutional Law from the University of São Paulo.He was elected a federal deputy in 2006, taking office in 2007, and was re-elected to Parliament in 2010.He supports political reform and was critical of PT's then alliance with the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB).[3] He was supportive of ex-president Lula when he was questioned and tried in connection with the scandal known as Operation Car Wash.[4] In a 2015 op-ed for O Globo, Teixeira praised then president Dilma Rousseff for vetoing corporate financing of election campaigns and political parties, saying that by doing so she had shown “deep respect for democracy.”[5]