Pimenta da Veiga

João Pimenta da Veiga Filho is a former communications minister of Brazil.
Pimenta da Veiga was born in 1947, in Belo Horizonte. Graduated in Law and Social Sciences from the
Federal University of Rio [de Janeiro] in the year of 1972.
He was elected for the Chamber of Deputies for the state of Minas Gerais for the mandates of 1979/83,
1983/87 and 1987/91. In the Chamber of Deputies Pimenta da Veiga participated as an effective member in
the Committees for Education and Culture, Law and Constitution, Mines and Energy, and presided over the
Special Committee for the New Civil Code, in 1983. He headed the PMDB in the Chamber of Deputies in the period 1985/86. Pimenta da Veiga was one of the
founder members of PSDB. He was the Party leader in the Chamber
in 1988 and its President in January/February 1989. In 1988, he was elected Mayor of Belo Horizonte and
indicated as candidate for Governor of the state of Minas Gerais, in 1990.
In 1994, Pimenta da Veiga was elected National President of PSDB and in the last polls he won a seat in the
Chamber representing the state of Minas Gerais for the mandate of 1999/2003.
Nominated as Minister of Communications on January 1 by the President of the Republic.
Nowadays he has retired from politics and is working as a lawyer in Brasília-DF.