José Maria Eymael (born 2 November 1939) is a Brazilian politician, lawyer, businessman, and founder of the Democracia Cristã (DC), known in English as the
Christian Democracy
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.
Eymael was a candidate for president in 1998, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022.
Political biography
Eymael joined the
Christian Democratic Party
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(PDC) in 1962, in Porto Alegre, becoming a member of the Young Christian Democrats. The PDC was extinguished by the Institutional Act number two on 27 October 1965, during Brazil's military dictatorship, and was refounded in 1985. Eymael was responsible for its reorganization in the state of São Paulo.
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In 1985 Eymael was a candidate for mayor of
São Paulo
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, but lost the election. However, the PDC's campaign jingle, with the chorus "Ey Ey Eymael", helped make him popular, and has been associated with him throughout his political career.
In 1986 and again in 1990, he was elected to the
Representative Body of Brazil
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, the
lower house
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of the
National Congress of Brazil
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.
He ran again for mayor of São Paulo in 1992 but lost once again.
In 1993 the PDC merged with the
Democratic Social Party
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It was established in 1979 as a continuation of the National Renewal Alliance (ARENA), the political wing of the military during the 1965–79 military dictators ...
(Partido Democrático Social, PDS), forming the
Reform Progressive Party
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(Partido Progressista Reformador, PPR). Eymael opposed the merge and left the PPR. In 1995, he founded the
PSDC, professing a commitment to familiar and religious values.
Accomplishments as a member of the Representative Body
Congressman Eymael was rated by the Interunionist Department of Parliamentary Advising (Departamento Intersindical de Assessoria Parlamentar, DIAP) as one of the twelve most influential lawmakers in Congress and finishing his work at the Constituent National Assembly he had 145 proposals approved, placing him among the fifteen with the highest number. Among these proposals, there are the following:
* Advance notice of 30 days for all workers;
* Workweek of 44 hours;
* Employee's right to leisure;
* Prohibition of the existence of tax for purposes of confiscation;
* Requirement for taxpayers in the same situation have the same tax treatment;
* Admissibility of an injunction also against acts by any corporation in the exercise of public functions;
* Chance of GST be lower for most needed products, such as the products that comprise the market basket;
* Article 180 of the Constitution, which obliges the Union, states and municipalities to support and encourage tourism as a factor in economic and social development;
* Article 17 of the Temporary Constitutional Provisions Act, which states that whenever a public official to receive compensation or retirement incomes exceed the constitutional limits, these values must be lowered immediately to those limits, not fitting in this case, invocation of rights acquired;
* Obligatoriness of unions, states and municipalities to publish until the 30th of each month the amounts collected or received in that month, thus enabling the society's control over public revenue;
* Duty of adult children caring for parents in aging conditions, narrow circumstances or sickness (Article 229 of the Constitution);
While in the National Constituent Assembly, Eymael was also the author of the speech advocating the retention of the name of God in the preamble of the Constitution, opposing its proposed removal.
Presidential candidacies
Eymael was a candidate for president in 1998, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022
traveling in each campaign through every Brazilian state. In the 2010 election, Eymael gathered 89,350 votes, placing fifth.
Life outside politics
Jose Maria Eymael is a lawyer specializing in Tax Law and an entrepreneur in the areas of marketing and communications. He is married, and has two children and five grandchildren.
References
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1939 births
Living people
Candidates for President of Brazil
People from Porto Alegre
Christian Democracy (Brazil) politicians
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Brazil) from São Paulo
Reform Progressive Party politicians
Christian Democratic Party (Brazil) politicians
Brazilian Labour Party (1981) politicians
Democratic Social Party politicians
National Renewal Alliance politicians
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul alumni
Brazilian Roman Catholics