Daniel Silveira facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Daniel Silveira
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 1 February 2019 – 1 February 2023
Constituency	Rio de Janeiro
Personal details
Born	Daniel Lucio da Silveira (1982-11-25) 25 November 1982 (age 41) Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Political party	PRD (since 2023)
Other political affiliations	PSL (2018–2022) PTB (2022–2023)
Occupation	Military police officer, politician and Lawyer
Military service
Allegiance	Brazil
Branch/service	Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State
Years of service	2012–2018
Rank	Corporal
Criminal information Daniel Silveira Conviction(s) Coercion in the course of the lawsuit Violent abolition of the Democratic state Prevent the free exercise of the Judiciary Penalty 8 years and 9 months Status In prison

Daniel Lucio da Silveira (25 November 1982) is a former Rio de Janeiro Military Police officer and Brazilian politician, affiliated with the PTB. He was a federal deputy for Rio de Janeiro from 2019 to 2023.

Silveira was arrested on 16 February 2021, after publishing a video with an apology for AI-5 and attacks on ministers of the Federal Supreme Court.

Biography and political trajectory

Daniel Silveira, born in Petrópolis, was a bus collector, between 23 December 2006, and 17 January 2007, obtained false certificates for missing work and was prosecuted for falsehood. Shortly thereafter, he took a contest for the Military Police of the State of Rio de Janeiro, but due to the falsehood process, Silveira was disapproved in 2011 for social research. In 2014, it was fully incorporated after appealing in court, and in 2016 the process expired and the case was closed.

Silveira worked for Rio de Janeiro's military police between 2012 and 2018. During his service, he stated he would like to shoot a protestor of Jair Bolsonaro. His police record reflected further malpractice, with Silveira receiving 60 disciplinary sanctions, 14 reprimands and two warnings during his service, as well as spending 26 days in prison and 54 in detention. Following this, he was considered inappropriate for the military police service, according to the police bulletin. During his time as a police officer, he studied law at the Estácio de Sá University, completing the course in 2019. He is also a teacher of muay thai and self-defense.

He was elected in the 2018 elections as a federal deputy for Rio de Janeiro for the 56th legislature of the Chamber of Deputies, through the PSL, with 31,789 votes (0.41% of those valid).

The politician became known because, before the 2018 elections, his video went viral on social media next to the state deputy elected by Rio de Janeiro, Rodrigo Amorim, in which both the candidates broke a plaque honoring Marielle Franco, a councilwoman murdered on 14 March 2018, in Rio de Janeiro. In his defense, Silveira claimed that the sign had been removed because it covered the signaling of Praça Floriano Peixoto and to send a message to militant agents that they would not take over territory ostensibly and through vandalism.

Among the main votes in Congress, Silveira voted in favor of the following agendas: MP 867 (which, according to environmentalists, would amend the Forest Code amnesty for deforestation); MP 910 (known as MP da Grilagem); PL 3723, which regulates the practice of snipers and hunters; New Sanitation Legal Framework; church debt amnesty; Sergio Moro's "Anti-Crime Package"; Social Security Reform PEC; freezing of public servants' salaries (2020) and the convening of an Inter-American Convention against Racism.

Silveira voted against on the following guidelines: that those responsible for breaking dams should be criminalized; that teachers were outside the rules of the new Pension Reform; increase in the Party Fund and the possibility of alteration or decrease in the Electoral Fund.

In the regulation of the new FUNDEB, Daniel was absent in the first vote and in the second he voted against the allocation being only for public education.

In February 2021, after having his arrest decreed by the Federal Supreme Court and confirmed by the Chamber of Deputies, Silveira left the PSL and joined the Brazilian Labor Party (PTB), signing his membership card from inside the prison next to the acronym president, Roberto Jefferson.

Electoral history