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.[1] 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.

Biography

During his time as a state deputy, Bittencourt presided over the Education Commission of the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro.[2] He is the state president of Cidadania in Rio de Janeiro.[3] He was vice-mayor of Niterói during the mayoralty of Godofredo Pinto of the Workers' Party (PT).[4] He was elected again as a state deputy in 2014 with 36,155 votes.[5]

He was selected as vice-mayoral candidate, with Rodrigo Neves as mayor, due to the barring of provisional vice-mayor candidate Axel Grael by the regional Elections' Court. They were elected to their respective offices, with Neves being reelected as mayor. Due to his belief of the city needing a strong representative at the state legislative assembly in order to better address crises at the state level, he resigned from being vice-mayor in order to return being a state deputy.[6][7] He continued to hold that position until 2019.

On 5 August 2018, in an announcement made during a conference at the Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, with representatives from both Cidadania (then called the PPS) and the Democratas,[8] Bittencourt announced he was running to be vice-governor of Rio de Janeiro, with Rio de Janeiro mayor Eduardo Paes as the gubernatorial candidate.[9] Cidadania later confirmed their support for the ticket, which would go on to reach second place, losing to the ticket led by Witzel and Castro.[10]

Bittencourt served as the State Secretary of Education after Pedro Fernandes Neto was dismissed from the position. Bittencourt's official nomination occurred on 25 September 2020,[11] invited by then-interim governor Cláudio Castro (PSC).[12][13] He assumed the position during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, during which discussions of school students returning to classes in-person was high in the public consciousness.[14] He left the position in less than a year, being replaced by Alexandre Valle in 2021.[15]

References

  1. ↑ "Partidos políticos registrados no TSE". Superior Electoral Court (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 7 April 2023. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  2. ↑ Legislative Assembly of the State of Rio de Janeiro (2014). "Composição da Comissão de Educação". ALERJ. Archived from the original on 8 September 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  3. ↑ Partido Popular Socialista. "Diretórios Estaduais". Archived from the original on 8 September 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  4. ↑ Universo Online (2004). "Petista é reeleito no 2º turno". UOL. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  5. ↑ TRE-RJ (18 December 2014). "Resultado de votação por UF - RJ" (PDF). pp. 22 and 60. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  6. ↑ Rottas, Lislane (17 December 2016). "Comte vai permanecer como deputado na Alerj". Archived from the original on 3 August 2018. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  7. ↑ Monteiro, Gilson (11 December 2017). "Comte renuncia ao mandato de vice". Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  8. ↑ "Comte Bittencourt, do PPS, é anunciado como vice de Eduardo Paes, do DEM, na corrida ao Governo do RJ". G1. 5 August 2018. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  9. ↑ "Comte Bittencourt, do PPS, é anunciado como vice de Eduardo Paes, do DEM, na corrida ao Governo do RJ". G1 (in Brazilian Portuguese). 5 August 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  10. ↑ Almeida, Marcelo (2 August 2018). "PPS confirma seu apoio a Paes". O Fluminense. Archived from the original on 8 August 2018. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  11. ↑ "Comte Bittencourt será o novo secretário estadual de Educação". A Voz da Serra (in Brazilian Portuguese). 25 September 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  12. ↑ Satriniano, Nicolás (22 October 2020). "Alunos do RJ que não passarem no vestibular poderão ser reintegrados em 2021, diz secretário". G1 (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  13. ↑ "'Continuo do mesmo lado', diz Comte, novo secretário estadual de Educação". O Dia. 25 September 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  14. ↑ "Comte Bittencourt será o novo secretário estadual de Educação do Rio". O Globo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 25 September 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  15. ↑ "Comte Bittencourt deixa o cargo de secretário estadual de Educação". A Voz da Serra (in Brazilian Portuguese). 3 June 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2023.

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