Ataídes de Oliveira

He sat in the Senate from December 2013 to January 2019, first as an alternate and later as the holder, and joined the Novo party in 2024, which reference works place on the far-right. He is Novo's candidate for Governor of Tocantins in the 2026 election.

Career

Oliveira worked as a businessman in consortia, civil construction and vehicle resale in Tocantins. He was elected first alternate to Senator João Ribeiro in 2010 and took the seat on 23 December 2013, serving until 31 January 2019. He has belonged to many parties, among them the PSDB, PROS, PP, Solidariedade and MDB, and has been in Novo since 2024. In the 2014 election for governor of Tocantins he finished third with 24,874 votes (3.54%). In the Senate he was named rapporteur in 2015 of the process on the jailed Senator Delcídio do Amaral.

Positions

In the Senate Oliveira voted for the constitutional amendment capping public spending in December 2016 and for the labour reform in July 2017. In October 2017 he voted to let Senator Aécio Neves keep his mandate, overturning a decision of a panel of the Supreme Federal Court. Wikipedia describes Novo, his party, as conservative-liberal and libertarian and places it on the far-right.

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