{{Short description|Brazilian politician and teacher}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Marcelo Freixo | image = Marcelo Freixo em Paraty em Junho de 2022 - 01 (cropped).jpg | caption = Freixo in 2022 | office = Chair of the [[Embratur|Brazilian Tourist Board]] | term_start = 12 January 2023 | term_end = 31 March 2026 | president = [[Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]] | minister = [[Daniela Carneiro]]<br />[[Celso Sabino]]<br />[[Gustavo Feliciano]] | predecessor = [[Gilson Machado Neto]] | successor = Bruno Reis | office1 = [[Member of the Chamber of Deputies (Brazil)|Member of the Chamber of Deputies]] | term_start1 = 1 February 2019 | term_end1 = 12 January 2023 | constituency1 = [[Rio de Janeiro (state)|Rio de Janeiro]] | office2 = <!-- [[Chamber of Deputies (Brazil)|Chamber]] Minority Leader | term_start2 = 24 March 2021 | term_end2 = 16 February 2022 | predecessor2 = José Guimarães | successor2 = Alencar Santana --> | office3 = [[Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro|State Deputy of Rio de Janeiro]] | term_start3 = 1 January 2007 | term_end3 = 1 January 2019 | constituency3 = [[At-large]] | birth_name = Marcelo Ribeiro Freixo | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1967|4|12|df=y}} | birth_place = [[São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro|São Gonçalo]], [[Rio de Janeiro (state)|Rio de Janeiro]], Brazil<ref>{{cite web|url=http://divulgacandcontas.tse.jus.br/divulga/#/candidato/2016/2/60011/190000003384|title=Divulgação de Candidaturas e Contas Eleitorais|website=TSE|language=pt|access-date=2022-09-04|archive-date=2021-05-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210519175743/https://divulgacandcontas.tse.jus.br/divulga/#/candidato/2016/2/60011/190000003384|url-status=dead}}</ref> | party = [[Workers' Party (Brazil)|PT]] (1986–2005; 2023–present) | other_party = {{Plainlist| * [[Socialism and Liberty Party|PSOL]] (2005–2021) * [[Brazilian Socialist Party|PSB]] (2021–2023)

}} | spouse = {{Marriage|Antonia Pellegrino|19 June 2019}} | children = 2 | alma_mater = [[Fluminense Federal University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]]) | profession = {{flatlist| *Historian *politician *teacher *television presenter }} }} '''Marcelo Ribeiro Freixo''' ({{IPA|pt|maʁˈsɛlu ʁiˈbejɾu ˈfɾejʃu|}}) is a Brazilian [[politician]] and [[teacher]] affiliated to the [[Workers' Party (Brazil)|Workers' Party]] (PT). He had served as a [[Chamber of Deputies (Brazil)|federal deputy]] for the [[Brazilian Socialist Party]] (PSB), and was formerly chairman of the Defence of Human Rights and Citizenship Commission on the [[Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro|Rio de Janeiro Legislative Assembly]].<ref>{{cite web|URL=http://alerjln1.alerj.rj.gov.br/compcom.nsf/45f80202b3db9b41832578aa0053aeef/e3e5f0b0e01382f183257ca60069c670?OpenDocument|title=Comissão de Defesa dos Direitos Humanos e Cidadania|author=Assembleia Legislativa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro|date=2014|publisher=Alerj|access-date=2014-08-09|archive-date=2018-06-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180619063517/http://alerjln1.alerj.rj.gov.br/compcom.nsf/45f80202b3db9b41832578aa0053aeef/e3e5f0b0e01382f183257ca60069c670?OpenDocument|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Freixo gained national attention when he presided over a parliamentary inquiry commission on [[Brazilian police militias|police militias]] in [[Rio de Janeiro]], having a character inspired on him in the Brazilian film ''[[Elite Squad: The Enemy Within]]'', directed by [[José Padilha]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://super.abril.com.br/comportamento/freixo-o-verdadeiro-fraga/|title=Freixo o verdadeiro fraga {{!}} Superinteressante|date=2011-03-25|newspaper=Superinteressante|access-date=2016-10-31}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2012-09-17/how-elite-squad-2-took-control-of-rio-mayor-s-race|title=How Elite Squad 2 Took Control of Rio Mayor's Race|last=Phillips|first=Dominic|date=2012-09-17|newspaper=Bloomberg View|access-date=2016-10-31|archive-date=2015-09-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923181835/http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2012-09-17/how-elite-squad-2-took-control-of-rio-mayor-s-race|url-status=dead}}</ref>

He ran for mayor of Rio de Janeiro twice, in 2012 and [[2016 Rio de Janeiro mayoral election|2016]], having as vice-mayor candidate on the ticket in 2016 the lawyer and professor at [[Federal University of Rio de Janeiro|UFRJ]] [[Luciana Boiteux]]. He ended in second in both the run-offs, losing the first to [[Eduardo Paes]] from [[Brazilian Democratic Movement|PMDB]], and the second to the [[Brazilian Republican Party|PRB]] candidate [[Marcelo Crivella]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://g1.globo.com/rio-de-janeiro/eleicoes/2012/noticia/2012/10/eduardo-paes-e-reeleito-prefeito-do-rio-de-janeiro.html|title=Paes é reeleito prefeito do Rio|date=2012-10-07|work=Eleições 2012 no Rio de Janeiro|access-date=2017-10-26|language=pt-BR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://apuracao.gazetadopovo.com.br/resultados-eleicoes-2016-segundo-turno/rio-de-janeiro-rj/prefeito/|title=Resultado das Eleições 2016 - Prefeito - Rio de Janeiro-RJ {{!}} Gazeta do Povo|website=Gazeta do Povo|language=pt-BR|access-date=2016-10-31|archive-date=2016-11-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161102131012/http://apuracao.gazetadopovo.com.br/resultados-eleicoes-2016-segundo-turno/rio-de-janeiro-rj/prefeito/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

On 16 June 2021, Freixo left PSOL for PSB, in preparation for the [[2022 Rio de Janeiro gubernatorial election]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=CartaCapital|date=2021-06-11|title=Freixo anuncia que vai para o PSB e pede apoio de Ciro a Lula|url=https://www.cartacapital.com.br/cartaexpressa/freixo-anuncia-que-vai-para-o-psb-e-pede-apoio-de-ciro-a-lula/|access-date=2021-06-11|website=CartaCapital|language=pt-BR}}</ref> He left the [[Brazilian Socialist Party]] (PSB) and joined the Workers' Party (PT) in January 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-01-04 |title=Marcelo Freixo anuncia saída do PSB e filiação ao PT |url=https://g1.globo.com/rj/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/2023/01/04/marcelo-freixo-anuncia-saida-do-psb-e-filiacao-ao-pt.ghtml |access-date=2024-04-26 |website=G1 |language=pt-br}}</ref>

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