Alan Rick

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Alan Rick
Official portrait as senator
Senator for Acre
Assumed office
1 February 2023
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
1 February 2015 – 31 January 2023
ConstituencyAcre
Personal details
Born
Alan Rick Miranda

(1976-10-23) 23 October 1976 (age 47)
Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil
Political partyUNIÃO (2022–present)
Other political
affiliations

Alan Rick Miranda (born 23 October 1976), more commonly known as Alan Rick, is a Brazilian politician as well as a journalist, pastor, and television personality. He has spent his political career representing Acre, who had served as federal deputy representative from 2015 to 2023 and as senator since 2023.[1]

Personal life

Rick is the son of Antonio Milton Miranda and Maria Gorete Costa de Moraes da Silva.[1] He holds a postgraduate in political journalism, and prior to becoming a politician he worked as a television presenter, business manager, and journalist.[2] Rick is the pastor of the Forest Evangelical Baptist Church in Rio Branco.[2] He is married to Michele Miranda, whom he wed in 2009.[2]

Political career

In the

Brazilian Republican Party, the first ever politician elected of that party from Acre,[2] although he switched to the Democrats in 2017.[1] He was reelected in the 2018 election 22,263 votes (or 5,24% of all the valid votes cast).[3]

Rick voted in favor of the impeachment motion of then-president Dilma Rousseff.[4] He voted in favor of tax reforms and the 2017 Brazilian labor reform,[5] and in favor of opening a corruption investigation into Rousseff's successor Michel Temer.[6]

As with many politicians affiliated with the PRB, Rick is considered socially conservative. His main themes in his election campaign was based on defense of Christian morals and family values.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Alan Rick – Biografia". Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  2. ^
    PRB (in Portuguese). Archived from the original
    on 2 July 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  3. ^ Marreto, Júlia (8 October 2018). "2º turno: quem já ganhou e quais cargos serão decididos no dia 28". R7. Retrieved 1 July 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). O Globo. 2 August 2017. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  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.