The Brazilian Republican Party is a Brazil

Brazil

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ian political party

Political party

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. Its electoral number is 10 and it became a registered political party on August 25, 2005. The Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus (God's Kingdom Universal Church) uses the party to elect its bishops in Brazilian elections. Its most important members are former Vice-President José Alencar

José Alencar

José Alencar Gomes da Silva , also known as José Alencar, the Strong, was a Brazilian businessman and politician, and the Vice President of Brazil from 2003 to 2010. In business since a young age, Alencar was a self-made multimillionaire, as the chief executive of Coteminas, after working as...

 and Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro (state)

Rio de Janeiro is one of the 27 states of Brazil.Rio de Janeiro has the second largest economy of Brazil behind only São Paulo state.The state of Rio de Janeiro is located within the Brazilian geopolitical region classified as the Southeast...

 senator

Senate of Brazil

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 Marcelo Crivella

Marcelo Crivella

Marcello Bezerra Crivella is a Brazilian politician, gospel singer, and a bishop of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, a Protestant denomination. In 2002, he was elected as a Senator in the federal government of Brazil for the state of Rio de Janeiro on a Liberal Party ticket...

, nephew of Universal's leader Edir Macedo

Edir Macedo

Edir Macedo Bezerra is a Brazilian religious leader. Macedo was raised Catholic, but by 1970 was a Pentecostal. He founded the "Neo-Pentecostal" Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil in 1977....

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