José Guimarães
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Assumed office
1 February 2007
ConstituencyCeará
Chamber Government Leader
Assumed office
6 January 2023
Preceded byRicardo Barros
In office
12 February 2015 – 13 May 2016
Preceded byHenrique Fontana
Succeeded byAndré Moura
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ceará
In office
1 February 2003 – 1 February 2007
ConstituencyAt-large
Personal details
Born
José Nobre Guimarães

(1959-02-13) 13 February 1959
Quixeramobim, Ceará, Brazil
Political partyPT (1985–present)
RelativesJosé Genoino (brother)
Alma materFederal University of Ceará (LL.B.)
ProfessionLawyer

José Nobre Guimarães (born 13 February 1959) is a Brazilian lawyer and politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil representing the state of Ceará and a member of the Workers' Party (PT).

Guimarães is one of the eleven children of Mr. Sebastião and Mrs. Laiz.[1][2] He is brother of José Genoino, former president of the Workers' Party and former member of the Brazilian parliament.[2][3]

In Ceará, he served for two terms as a member of the Legislative Assembly, also serving, most of the time, as leader of the Workers' Party.[3][4] Before that, he was state president of the party for 8 years.[4][5][6]

Political activity

Son of agricultures of Quixeramobim, central countryside of Ceará,[1] Guimarães began his political life with trade unions[3] and in the Brazilian Committee for Amnesty. He joined the Workers' Party in 1985[3][5][6] and coordinated the campaign of Maria Luíza Fontenele for mayor of Fortaleza.[7] In 1988, he became Bachelor of Laws at the Federal University of Ceará.[3][8]

In 1989, he coordinated in Ceará the campaign of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for President of Brazil.[4][5][6]

In 2000, he took a seat as member of the Legislative Assembly of Ceará as substitute, later elected in 2002.[8] During this time, he served as leader of the Workers' Party and member of committees and also was rapporteur of the state's yearly budget plan.[4]

Terms in the Chamber of Deputies

Guimarães was elected for the Chamber of Deputies in 2006, reaching the highest number of votes of the party in Ceará[9] and reelected in 2010 as the most voted of the party and the second most voted of the state.[4][10]

He became Government Vice Leader and was widely known as the man who appointed the director's board of Banco do Nordeste. In the disputed political battlefield of the Brazilian northeast region, BNB was remarked as territory of José Guimarães.[11] Roberto Gress do Vale and José Alencar Sydrião Júnior are both Guimarães' appointments for the bank's highest management.

Guimarães was reelected in 2014 for the 55th Legislature and was chosen to be Government Leader in the Chamber.[12] He voted against the impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff,[13][14] Later, he voted against the Constitutional Amendment of the Public Expenditure Cap[13] and against the labour reform.[13] In August 2017, he voted in favor of the process that would open an investigation against president Michel Temer.[13][15]

Guimarães was reelected for the Chamber in 2018 and 2022.[16][17]

'Dollars in the underwear' case

In 2005, amid the Mensalão scandal, then advisor of José Guimarães, José Adalberto Vieira da Silva, was caught with R$ 209,000 (US$ 85,853.13) in a handbag and US$100,000 in cash in his underwear.[18] The parliamentary advisor was arrested by the Federal Police at the Congonhas Airport, in São Paulo.[19][20][21][22][23]

Months after the case, many versions of the source of the money were presented. First, Adalberto said the money came from fruits sale in São Paulo.[22] After that, Guimarães himself said the money would be used by Adalberto and José Vicente Ferreira, another advisor, for the creation of a car rental company.[19][24] However, according to Courts and the Federal Police, the money was a bribe received by Kennedy Moura, then special advisor of the chairman of Banco do Nordeste and former advisor and treasurer of José Guimarães, to speed up processes of loans.[20][25]

Moura, appointed by Guimarães, already had involved the politician's name in a case of a fraudulent bidding for the contracting services of Cobra Tecnologia, a subsidiary of Banco do Brasil.[24][26]

Eight congressmen and advisors were considered involved in the case and were indicted for administrative dishonesty, with convicted: Adalberto himself, the CEO of the state bank, Roberto Smith and the former special advisor Kennedy Moura. José Guimarães had his name removed from the complaints by the Superior Court of Justice due to lack of evidence.[20][23] After 16 years, the Federal Court of Ceará finished the complaint.[27]

References

  1. 1 2 Sá, Xico (8 July 2002). "Deputado vai da guerrilha à vanguarda do PT moderado". Folha de S. Paulo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  2. 1 2 "Morre pai de José Guimarães e José Genoíno em Fortaleza". Diário do Nordeste (in Brazilian Portuguese). 16 January 2016. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Leia a transcrição da entrevista de José Guimarães ao UOL". UOL Notícias (in Brazilian Portuguese). 6 February 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "José Guimarães é eleito novo líder do PT na Câmara". Câmara dos Deputados (in Brazilian Portuguese). 19 December 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  5. 1 2 3 Bomfim, Ricardo (31 October 2022). "Quem é José Guimarães, que está ao lado de Lula no discurso da vitória?". Valor Econômico (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  6. 1 2 3 Sabóia, Gabriel (29 December 2022). "Nome de confiança de Lula, Zé Guimarães é anunciado líder do futuro governo na Câmara". O Globo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  7. ↑ Mazza, Carlos (15 November 2015). "Maria Luiza. Há 30 anos, uma onda vermelha tomava conta de Fortaleza". O Povo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  8. 1 2 "Biografia do Deputado José Guimarães". Câmara dos Deputados (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  9. ↑ "Eleições 2006 - Apuração - Ceará - Deputado Federal". Folha Online (in Brazilian Portuguese). 8 October 2006. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  10. ↑ "Eleições 2010 - Apuração 1º turno - Ceará". G1 (in Brazilian Portuguese). 3 October 2010. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  11. ↑ Mateus, Leopoldo (8 June 2012). "Polícia Federal apura o desvio de mais de R$ 100 milhões do Banco do Nordeste". Época (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on 4 February 2018. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  12. ↑ "José Guimarães será líder do governo na Câmara, diz fonte". Exame (in Brazilian Portuguese). 3 February 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  13. 1 2 3 4 "Veja como deputados votaram no impeachment de Dilma, na PEC 241, na reforma trabalhista e na denúncia contra Temer". G1 (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2 August 2017. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  14. ↑ "Reforma trabalhista: como votaram os deputados". Carta Capital (in Brazilian Portuguese). 27 April 2017. Archived from the original on 24 April 2018. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  15. ↑ "Como votou cada deputado sobre a denúncia contra Temer". Carta Capital (in Brazilian Portuguese). 3 August 2017. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  16. ↑ "Camilo (PT) é reeleito governador do Ceará". G1 (in Portuguese). 7 October 2018. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  17. ↑ "Elmano de Freitas, do PT, é eleito governador do Ceará no primeiro turno das eleições". G1 (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2 October 2022. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  18. ↑ "Justiça livra José Guimarães de investigação dos dólares na cueca". Estadão (in Brazilian Portuguese). 28 June 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  19. 1 2 Fernandes, Kamila (15 July 2005). "Irmão de Genoino diz não ter relação com o dinheiro". Folha de S. Paulo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  20. 1 2 3 Sousa, Renato (8 July 2015). "Caso "dólares na cueca" completa 10 anos e está perto de um desfecho". O Povo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  21. ↑ "MP denuncia deputado e diretores do Banco". Diário do Nordeste (in Brazilian Portuguese). 3 December 2005. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  22. 1 2 "Petista preso diz ter obtido dinheiro com verduras". Folha de S. Paulo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 9 July 2005. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  23. 1 2 "STJ livra deputado cujo assessor foi flagrado com dólares na cueca". G1 (in Brazilian Portuguese). 29 June 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  24. 1 2 "Ex-assessor do BNB desmente Guimarães". Folha de S. Paulo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 15 July 2005. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  25. ↑ Macedo, Fausto; Oliveira, Ribamar (22 July 2005). "Dólar na cueca era propina, diz PF". Senado Federal (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  26. ↑ Camarotti, Gerson (13 July 2005). "PF investiga esquema de caixa dois no PT-CE". Senado Federal (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  27. ↑ Motta, Rayssa; Macedo, Fausto (21 August 2021). "Justiça encerra processo contra petista no caso dos 'dólares na cueca'". CNN Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 19 April 2023.
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