Luiz Nishimori

Luiz Hiloshi Nishimori (born 9 April 1949) is a Brazilian politician and farmer. He has spent his political career representing Paraná, having served as a state deputy representative from 2005 to 2011 and as federal deputy representative from 2011.[1]

Luiz Nishimori
Perondi in November 2015
Federal Deputy for Paraná
Assumed office
1 February 2011
State Deputy for Paraná
In office
1 February 2003 – 31 January 2011
Personal details
Born (1949-04-09) 9 April 1949
Marialva, Paraná, Brazil
Political partyPR (2013–)
PSDB (2007–2013)
PP (2002–2007)

Personal life

Nishimori is married to Akemi Nishimori and has two children. He has been a farmer since 1970, growing soybeans and wheat. His family owns the pesticide company named Mariagro Agrícola Ltda and his children are the owners of another company named Nishimori Agrícola.[2]

Political career

Nishimori voted in favor of the impeachment against then-president Dilma Rousseff and political reformation.[3][4] He would later vote in against opening a corruption investigation against Rousseff's successor Michel Temer, and voted in favor of the 2017 Brazilian labor reforms.[5] Nishimori is a supporter of reforming the pension system run by the government in Brazil.[6]

Nishimori was one of the principal drafters of bill 6299, which relaxed the rules concerning the usage of pesticides on Brazilian farms.[7] This bill essentially overturned Law 7.8022 passed in 1989 that limited the amount of pesticides that the Ministry of Agriculture would allow used, with regulation from health agencies. Bill 6299 was passed and became a law in 2018.[8]

There was some controversy as Nishimori's company profited from the loosening laws regarding pesticide usage that Nishimori helped pass. He has also been accused of covering up the use of DDT in his and other farms in Brazil.[2]

References
  1. "LUIZ NISHIMORI – Biografia". Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  2. Alceu Luís Castilho (7 December 2018). "Relator do PL do Veneno, Luiz Nishimori vendeu agrotóxicos no Paraná". De Olho Nos Ruralistas (in Portuguese). Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  3. "Deputados autorizam impeachment de Dilma, saiba quem votou a favor e contra". Portal EBC (in Portuguese). EBC. 17 April 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  4. "Reforma trabalhista: como votaram os deputados" (in Portuguese). Carta Capital. 27 April 2017. Archived from the original on 21 February 2019. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
  5. "Como votou cada deputado sobre a denúncia contra Temer" (in Portuguese). Carta Capital. 4 August 2017. Archived from the original on 21 February 2019. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
  6. Saldanha, Murillo (18 February 2019). "Saiba o que pensam os quatro deputados federais de Maringá sobre a reforma da previdência. Um é contra" [Find out what the four federal deputies of Maringá think about the pension reform. One is against] (in Portuguese). Maringá Post. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  7. "Draft Law 6299, of 2002". Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  8. "Agrotóxicos". Brasil Escola (in Portuguese). 7 December 2018. Retrieved 10 March 2019.


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