Nelson Trad Filho (born 5 September 1961), better known as Nelsinho Trad, is a Brazilian physician and politician, affiliated with the

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(PSD), is currently a

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for

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. Son of the politician Nelson Trad Sr., he graduated in

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from

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. Physician specializing in

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Occupational Medicine Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM), previously called industrial medicine, is a board certified medical specialty under the American Board of Preventative Medicine that specializes in the prevention and treatment of work-related ill ...

and

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. He is married to Keilla Soares, with whom he is the father of a girl.

Career

He began his political career as deputy director of Previsul (Instituto de Previdência do Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul) in the government of

Pedro Pedrossian Pedro Pedrossian (13 August 1928 – 22 August 2017) was a Brazilian politician. A member of the Party of National Mobilization, he served two terms as the Governor of Mato Grosso do Sul. The first term (1980–83) was an appointed role, before b ...

. Affiliated with the Brazilian Labor Party (PTB), he was elected councilor for

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in 1992 and re-elected successively in 1996 and 2000. In the biennium 2001/2002 he chaired the City Council. In 2002, he was elected state representative with the most votes, with 36,283 votes. In 2003, he transferred from the PTB to the

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(PMDB), where he ran for mayor of the capital in 2004, winning the dispute in the first round with 213,000 votes, with

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as deputy mayor. As mayor, he was awarded in 2006 by the then Vice President

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with the Officer's grade of the Order of Military Merit. In 2008, he was re-elected mayor with 288,821 votes or 71.41 percent of the valid votes, with Edil Albuquerque as deputy mayor. In 2014, he contested the election for the state

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with the support of then governor

André Puccinelli André Puccinelli (born 2 July 1948) is an Italian-Brazilian physician and politician, affiliated with the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB), being the first Italian and the first foreigner to become mayor of a city in Brazilian history. He was ...

, later arrested on charges of embezzling public resources in the fifth phase of Operation Papiros de Mud and in Operation Mud Asphalt by the

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. Trad digital campaign, coordinated by the company Medialogue Digital, was one of the first in

to widely use the WhatsApp, a tool that later became a focus for the dissemination of false information and mass shootings in elections. In 2018, back to the PTB, he was elected senator for

with 424,085 votes or 18.37 percent of the valid votes. In 2019, he transferred again, this time to the

(PSD).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Trad, Nelson Filho 1961 births Brazilian politicians Living people Members of the Federal Senate (Brazil)