Comte Bittencourt

Comte Bittencourt
Cidadania National President
Assumed office
9 September 2023
Preceded byRoberto Freire
State Secretary of Education of Rio de Janeiro
In office
25 September 2020  3 June 2021
GovernorWilson Witzel
Cláudio Castro
Preceded byPedro Fernandes Neto
Succeeded byAlexandre Valle
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro
In office
1 February 2003  1 February 2019
ConstituencyAt-large
Vice Mayor of Niterói
In office
1 January 2017  11 December 2017
MayorRodrigo Neves
Preceded byAxel Grael
Succeeded byPaulo Bagueira
In office
1 January 2005  1 January 2009
MayorGodofredo Pinto
Preceded byGodofredo Pinto
Succeeded byJosé Vicente Filho
Member of the Municipal Chamber of Niterói
In office
1 January 1993  1 February 2003
ConstituencyAt-large
Personal details
Born
Plínio Comte Leite Bittencourt

(1957-03-02) 2 March 1957
Rio de Janeiro, Federal District, Brazil
Political partyCidadania (2001–present)
Other political
affiliations
PSDB (1988–2001)
ProfessionTeacher

Plínio Comte Leite Bittencourt (born 2 March 1957) is a Brazilian politician. He is affiliated with Cidadania, of which he is the current president. He served as a councilman and as vice-mayor of the city of Niterói. He later became the Secretary of Education for the state of Rio de Janeiro from 2020 to 2021. He was a vice-gubernatorial candidate for the 2018 Rio de Janeiro gubernatorial election, with Eduardo Paes as the gubernatorial candidate, losing to Wilson Witzel and Cláudio Castro.