Marcelo Crivella

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Marcelo Crivella, Prefect of Rio de Janeiro

Marcelo Bezerra Crivella , pronunciation [ maʁˈsɛlu biˈzeʁɐ kɾiˈvɛlɐ ], (born October 9, 1957 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a Brazilian politician of the Republicanos and current city prefect of Rio de Janeiro.

Life

Crivella is of Italian origin, his father is Múcio Crivella, his mother the Brazilian Eris Bezerra Crivella, both Catholic. His uncle is the influential IURD Bishop Edir Macedo . His party, the evangelical-religious Christian Democratic PRB, is heavily controlled by his family. He studied civil engineering at the Universidade Santa Úrsula and the Centro Universitário Geraldo Di Biase (UGB). Crivella is married to Sylvia Jane Hodge and has three children.

In the late 1990s he released several CDs of gospel music.

Crivella is bishop of the neo-charismatic free church Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus , which was founded by his uncle, the entrepreneur Edir Macedo , a former lottery worker and self-proclaimed faith healer. Crivella served as a missionary in Africa for several years.

Political career

From February 1, 2003 to January 1, 2017 in the 52nd to 55th legislative terms, Crivella served as one of three senators for his home state in the Senate of Brazil . From March 2, 2012 to March 17, 2014, Crivella was the successor to Nóbrega de Oliveira, Minister for Fisheries and Pisciculture ( Ministro da Pesca e Aquicultura ) in Brazil in the Rousseff I cabinet . He was succeeded as Minister of Fisheries by Eduardo Lopes .

Since January 1, 2017, Crivella has been the successor of Eduardo Paes City Prefect (Mayor) of Rio de Janeiro. In the runoff election (2nd ballot) in the local elections in Brazil in 2016 , he received 59.36% (1,700,030 voters) of the valid votes.

In Rio de Janeiro, Crivella is controversial due to controversial statements and his negative attitude towards the local carnival , which he describes as "unchristian excess". By 2020 he cut all state support to the organizers. When it came to flooding in Rio de Janeiro after heavy rains, he blamed the residents of the city themselves, because they had "disposed of garbage on the river banks".

Worldview

Crivella advocates an evangelical fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible, which was initially characterized by extreme religious intolerance. In his book Evangelizing Africa , he describes homosexuality as a "terrible evil" and Catholics as demonic. He also claimed that traditional African religions worship "evil spirits" and that Hindus drink child blood. Later, however, he distanced himself from the statements in this book, which he describes as the work of a young, immature missionary . Crivella is an anti-abortionist and a creationist .

Web links

Commons : Marcelo Crivella  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official website of Crivella
  2. ^ Senate of Brazil: Marcello Crivella , short profile, accessed on March 19, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  3. ↑ General-Anzeiger Bonn: The mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Marcelo Crivella, has little to do with the carnival
  4. ↑ Prefeito Eleito no Rio de Janeiro / RJ. In: www.eleicoes2016.com.br. Eleições 2016, accessed March 19, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  5. ↑ Philipp Lichterbeck: Brazil: Is the carnival threatened with the end? In: Der Tagesspiegel . December 19, 2017, accessed on January 6, 2020.
  6. ↑ Carnival in Rio: Shrill, colorful and harshly criticized
  7. ↑ Storm in Brazil: 16 dead after heavy rain and landslides - tagesschau.de
  8. ↑ a b Joe Leahy: Brazil's evangelicals push politics to the right . October 24, 2016. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
  9. ↑ Gabriel Samuels: Rio de Janeiro elects mayor who said homosexuality is 'evil' . November 2, 2016. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
predecessor Office successor
Luiz Sérgio Nóbrega de Oliveira Minister for Fisheries and Pisciculture
2012–2014 		Eduardo Lopes
Eduardo Paes 53rd City Prefect of Rio de Janeiro
2017– 		-
personal data
SURNAME Crivella, Marcelo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crivella, Marcelo Bezerra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro , Brazil