Brizola Neto

Brizola Neto
Brizola Neto in 2012
Minister of Labor and Employment
In office
3 May 2012  13 March 2013
Preceded byPaulo Roberto dos Santos Pinto (interim)
Succeeded byManoel Dias
Federal deputy of Rio de Janeiro
In office
1 February 2007  31 January 2011
Councilman of Rio de Janeiro
In office
1 January 2005  31 January 2007
Personal details
Born
Carlos Daudt Brizola

(1978-10-11) 11 October 1978
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Political partyPDT (1997–2018)
PPL (2018–2019)
PCdoB (2019–2020)
PDT (2020–present)
Relatives

Carlos Daudt Brizola, better known as Brizola Neto (born 11 October 1978), is a Brazilian politician, currently affiliated with the Democratic Labour Party (PDT), of which he was the former national president of its youth wing, Young Socialists. He has been a federal deputy from the state of Rio de Janeiro, as well as having been a councilman for the city of Rio de Janeiro. He was also the Labour and Employment minister during the Dilma Rousseff administration. He is the grandson of Leonel Brizola, as well as the brother of Porto Alegre councilwoman and state deputy in Rio Grande do Sul state Juliana Brizola.

He has also been a member of the Free Fatherland Party (PPL) and the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB), where he was one point a member of the national directory. He returned to the PDT in 2020.