Jerônimo Goergen

Jerônimo Pizzolotto Goergen (born 20 January 1976) is a Brazilian politician as well as a lawyer. He has spent his political career representing his home state of Rio Grande do Sul, having served as state representative since 2011.[1]

Jerônimo Goergen
Goergen in May 2017
Federal Deputy for Rio Grande do Sul
Assumed office
1 February 2011
State Deputy for Rio Grande do Sul
In office
1 February 2003 – 31 January 2011
Personal details
Born (1976-01-20) 20 January 1976
Palmeira das Missões, RS, Brazil
Political partyPP

Personal life

Goergen is the son of Gilberto Elias Goergen and Clelia Regina Pizzolotto.[1] In his youth Goergen joined the Juventude Progressista Gaúcha (JPG), the youth wing of the Progressistas.[2] As is common in his home state Goergen is of German and Italian descent. Before becoming a politician he worked as a lawyer.[1]

Political career

Goergen voted in favor of the impeachment of then-president Dilma Rousseff.[3] He voted in favor of the 2017 Brazilian labor reform,[4] and would vote in favor of a corruption investigation into Rousseff's successor Michel Temer.[5]

Goergen is the institutional coordinator of the Parliamentary Front of Agriculture (FPA), a political forum that is compressed of more than 250 deputies in who lobby for the defense of agribusiness.[6] He was the creator of the proposal that instituted the Stimulus Program for the Restructuring and Strengthening of Higher Education Institutions and was the author of the proposal that amended the Pelé Law, establishing rules of management and transparency in sport. He was the sub-rapporteur of the project creating the new Code of Civil Procedure (CPC).[1] He is also the author of PL 4824/2012, which extends the rights of airmen, and the new Drivers Act, which regulates the workload of cargo carriers.[7]

References
  1. "JERÔNIMO GOERGEN – Biografia". Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 16 September 2019.
  2. "Juventude Progressista Gaúcha dá início à seminários regionais" (in Portuguese). Partido Progressistas. 21 March 2009. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
  3. "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.
  4. "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 16 September 2019.
  5. "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.
  6. "FITAS UTILIZADAS NO TESTE SOROLÓGICO DE WESTERN BLOTTING JÁ FORAM VALIDADAS" (in Portuguese). O Correi. 22 June 2016. Archived from the original on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
  7. Senator Jerônimo Goergen (December 2012). "PROJETO DE LEI Nº, DE 2012". Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 16 September 2019.
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