Rafael Motta

Rafael Motta
De Toni in April 2016
Federal Deputy for Rio Grande do Norte
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 February 2015
Vereador of Natal
In office 1 January 2013 –17 December 2014
Personal details
Born	(1986-08-15) 15 August 1986 (age 34) Natal, Rio Grande do Norte Brazil
Political party	PSB (2016–) PROS (2013–2016) PP (2012–2013)

Rafael Huete da Motta (born 15 August 1986) is a Brazilian politician and engineer. He has spent his political career representing Rio Grande do Norte, having served in the national legislature since 2015. ^[1]

Personal life

Motta was born to Ricardo José Meirelles da Motta and Maria Cristina Huete Meirelles da Motta. Prior to becoming a politician Motta worked as an engineer. ^[1]

Motta is part of spiritualist community of Brazil. ^[2] Together with Caroline de Toni and Eduardo Girão he helped pass the resolution declaring "National Day of Spiritism" as a federal holiday, which is on April 18, the date of publication of "The Book of Spirits" by Allan Kardec. ^[3]

Political career

In the 2014 Brazilian general election Motta was elected to the Chamber of Deputies at the age of 28 with more than 176,000 votes. In doing so he followed in the footsteps of his father, who had also elected federal deputy of Rio Grande do Norte. ^[1]

In December 2015 he was expelled from the Republican Party of the Social Order for criticizing misuse of party funds. ^[4] A week later Motta joined the Brazilian Socialist Party or PSB. In February 2016 Motta was elected president of the PSB for the state of Rio Grande do Norte by his party. ^[5]

Motta voted in favor to the impeachment of then-president Dilma Rousseff, ^[6] and was one of the strongest supporters of impeachment in the PSB party. ^[7] He in favor of the tax reforms on petrol but voted in against the 2017 Brazilian labor reform, ^[8] and would vote in favor of a corruption investigation into Rousseff's successor Michel Temer. ^[9]

References

1. "RAFAEL MOTTA – Biografia". Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 7 January 2020.
2. "Câmara realiza sessão solene em homenagem ao Dia Nacional do Espiritismo" (in Portuguese). Câmara dos Deputados. 30 April 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
3. "Câmara realiza sessão solene em homenagem ao Dia Nacional do Espiritismo". Agência Câmara Notícias (in Portuguese). Dourados Agora. 4 April 2019. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
4. França, Virgínia (2 December 2015). "Rafael Motta é expulso do PROS por criticar uso indevido do fundo partidário" (in Portuguese). Portal Noar. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
5. "Deputado federal Rafael Motta é o novo presidente do PSB/RN" (in Portuguese). PSB. 2 February 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
6. "Reforma trabalhista: como votaram os deputados" (in Portuguese). Carta Capital. 27 April 2017. Archived from the original on 21 February 2019. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
7. "A favor do impeachment, Rafael Motta defende nova postura na política" (in Portuguese). PSB. 14 April 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
8. "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 7 January 2020.
9. "Como votou cada deputado sobre a denúncia contra Temer" (in Portuguese). Carta Capital. 4 August 2017. Archived from the original on 21 February 2019. Retrieved 18 September 2017.