Bonifácio José Tamm de Andrada
Bonifácio José Tamm de Andrada | |
|---|---|
 Tamm de Andrada in October 2011 | |
| Federal Deputy for Minas Gerais | |
| In office 1 February 1979 – 31 January 2019 | |
| State Deputy of Minas Gerais | |
| In office 1959–1975 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 May 1930 (2018–2021) |
Bonifácio José Tamm de Andrada (14 May 1930 – 5 January 2021) was a Brazilian politician affiliated to
Born in Barbacena, Minas Gerais, he was a member of several political parties throughout his career.
Previously, he was councillor for Barbacena, from 1954 to 1958, and state deputy in Minas Gerais, from 1959 to 1975, having thus held legislative positions for sixty years. He was also a candidate for Vice President of the Republic in the 1989 elections, joining Paulo Maluf's ticket.
From 1979 to 2019, he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies, having served ten consecutive terms.
Political career
Bonifácio was one of the founders of the National Campaign for Free Educandários – (CNEC) in the 1950s and graduated in Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro after having completed the first years of the course at Faculdade Mineira de Direito. After graduating, he started private law in his hometown, where he was elected councilor for a term (1954 to 1958) by the UDN. He was a state deputy in Minas Gerais for four consecutive terms (1959–1975), for the UDN in the first two and for ARENA in the others.[1][2][3][4]
He was a federal deputy for Minas Gerais for the tenth consecutive term (since 1979), elected by the National Renovating Alliance (ARENA) in his first term, by the
Andrada founded in Barbacena, together with his father, the weekly Correio da Serra in 1954, a staunch opposition newspaper of the "udenist" line of which he was editor-in-chief for many years. He was affiliated to the UDN (1954–1965) – for which he was elected councilor and state deputy, when he defended, among other topics, the parliamentary regime (on which, even, he has published works), ARENA (1966–1979), PDS (1980–1993), PTB (1994–1996) and PSDB (since 1997).
He was absent on the vote of Dante de Oliveira Amendment in 1984 that proposed Direct Elections for the Presidency of the Republic, in which twenty-two votes were missing for the amendment to be approved.[6] He was a member of the National Assembly that drafted the 1988 Constitution.[5]
As a state deputy, Andrada chaired the Legislative Assembly of Minas Gerais in 1968. And as a federal deputy, he chaired the Constitution and Justice Commission of the Chamber of Deputies in Brasília. Until the beginning of January 2021, he was the oldest federal deputy in Brazil. He was a candidate for vice-president of the Republic of Brazil in the 1989 presidential election in Paulo Maluf's plate, with this plate obtaining 5,986,575 votes, placing fifth, behind the winner Fernando Collor de Mello, by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, by Leonel Brizola and Mário Covas, and defeating known names like Ulysses Guimarães, Aureliano Chaves and Enéas Carneiro. He was elected federal deputy in 2014, for the 55th legislature (2015–2019), by the PSDB. He voted in favor of Dilma Rousseff's impeachment process.[7] In the Michel Temer government, he voted in favor of the PEC on the Ceiling of Public Spending.[7]
In August 2017, Andrada voted against the lawsuit in which he was asked to open an investigation by then President Michel Temer, helping to file the complaint of the Federal Public Ministry.[7][8] In September 2017, he was chosen by the Constitution and Justice Commission (CCJ) to be the rapporteur of the second complaint against the President of the Republic Michel Temer for the crimes of obstruction to Justice and criminal organization. On 10 October, he recommended that the complaint be rejected by the CCJ.[9][10]
Public positions
Andrada began his public life as a cabinet officer for the Minister of Agriculture (1955) in the
Personal life
Andrada is the son of
He was married to Amália Borges de Andrada and left 8 children, including politicians like Antônio Carlos Doorgal de Andrada and Lafayette Luiz Doorgal de Andrada, the former attorney general of the Union and deputy attorney general of the Republic José Bonifácio Borges de Andrada, and the judge of the TJMG Doorgal Gustavo Borges de Andrada.[11] He was Roman Catholic.[12][13]
Andrada died from COVID-19 complications on 5 January 2021, aged 90, at the Mater Dei hospital in Belo Horizonte during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.[14][15]
Published works
- Ideias e propostas para um Brasil livre;
- Seminário Minas e a Constituição;
- Parlamentarismo e a evolução brasileira: breve ensaio sobre o parlamentarismo, presidencialismo e a evolução política brasileira (1962);
- A educação e segurança nacional (1966);
- Os poderes da Assembleia Nacional Constituinte;
- Migrações sazonais no Nordeste: relatório de pesquisa (1981);
- Constituição, regime democrático e revisão constitucional (1993);
- Parlamentarismo e a realidade nacional (1993);
- A revolução de 1930: marco histórico (1995);
- Ciência política, ciência do poder (1998)
Tributes and decorations
During his career, Bonifácio Andrada has received honors and decorations. Among them, the following stand out:
- Medal of Inconfidência, government of Minas Gerais (1966);
- Medal Santos Dumont, government of Minas Gerais (1968);
- Medal Santos Dumont, from the FAB (1969);
- Medal Alferes Tiradentes, Military Police of Minas Gerais (1977);
- Baron of Rio Branco Order of Merit (1980);
- Legislative Merit of Minas Gerais (1982);
- Merit of the Chilean government;
- Merit of the Superior Labor Court;
- Army Military Merit Medal;
- Military Merit of the Navy;
- Military Merit of Aeronautics
See also
- José Bonifácio de Andrada
References
- ^ ALMG 3ª Legislatura[permanent dead link] Site da Assembléia Legislativa de Minas Gerias – acessado em 13 de julho de 2010
- ^ ALMG 4ª Legislatura[permanent dead link] Site da Assembléia Legislativa de Minas Gerias – acessado em 13 de julho de 2010
- ^ ALMG 5ª Legislatura[permanent dead link] Site da Assembléia Legislativa de Minas Gerias – acessado em 13 de julho de 2010
- ^ ALMG 6ª Legislatura[permanent dead link] Site da Assembléia Legislativa de Minas Gerias – acessado em 13 de julho de 2010
- ^ a b Câmara Site da Câmara – acessado em 13 de julho de 2010
- ^ Primeira página: Folha de S.Paulo – Coletânea das mais importantes primeiras páginas do jornal desde 1921. São Paulo: Publifolha. p. 170.
- ^ a b c G1 (8 February 2017). "Veja como deputados votaram no impeachment de Dilma, na PEC 241, na reforma trabalhista e na denúncia contra Temer". Retrieved 10 November 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Deutsche Welle (8 March 2017). "Como votou cada deputado sobre a denúncia contra Temer". Carta Capital. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
- ^ G1 (28 September 2017). "Denúncia contra Temer: Bonifácio de Andrada é anunciado relator na CCJ". G1. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ G1 (10 October 2017). "Relator na CCJ recomenda rejeição da denúncia contra Temer, Padilha e Moreira". G1. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Minas, Tribuna de (6 January 2021). "Morre, por complicações da Covid-19, o ex-deputado Bonifácio de Andrada". Tribuna de Minas.
- ^ barbacena, Santa Casa de Misericórdia. "Missa em homenagem a Dr. Zezinho Bonifácio a Vera Andrada". scbarbacena.com.br.
- ^ "Ex-deputado Bonifácio Andrada é sepultado após missa e cortejo em Barbacena | Zona da Mata | G1". Archived from the original on 7 January 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ^ Júlio César Santos; Fiúza, Patrícia (5 January 2021). "Ex-deputado Bonifácio Andrada morre aos 90 anos, por complicações decorrentes da Covid-19, em hospital de BH". G1. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
- ^ "Obituário: Falece o ex-deputado Bonifácio Andrada". Barbacena Online.
External links
- Bonifácio Andrada's Official Page Archived 30 January 2019 at the Wayback Machine
- Chamber of Deputies from Brazil