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Comte Bittencourt
Cidadania National President
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 September 2023
Preceded by	Roberto Freire
State Secretary of Education of Rio de Janeiro
In office 25 September 2020 – 3 June 2021
Governor	Wilson Witzel Cláudio Castro
Preceded by	Pedro Fernandes Neto
Succeeded by	Alexandre Valle
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro
In office 1 February 2003 – 1 February 2019
Constituency	At-large
Vice Mayor of Niterói
In office 1 January 2017 – 11 December 2017
Mayor	Rodrigo Neves
Preceded by	Axel Grael
Succeeded by	Paulo Bagueira
In office 1 January 2005 – 1 January 2009
Mayor	Godofredo Pinto
Preceded by	Godofredo Pinto
Succeeded by	José Vicente Filho
Member of the Municipal Chamber of Niterói
In office 1 January 1993 – 1 February 2003
Constituency	At-large
Personal details
Born	Plínio Comte Leite Bittencourt (1957-03-02) 2 March 1957 (age 67) Rio de Janeiro, Federal District, Brazil
Political party	Cidadania (2001–present)
Other political affiliations	PSDB (1988–2001)
Profession	Teacher

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.

Biography

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

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. 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, Bittencourt announced he was running to be vice-governor of Rio de Janeiro, with Rio de Janeiro mayor Eduardo Paes as the gubernatorial candidate. 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.

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, invited by then-interim governor Cláudio Castro (PSC). 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. He left the position in less than a year, being replaced by Alexandre Valle [pt] in 2021.

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.

External links

• Official website (in Portuguese)
• Comte Bittencourt on Facebook
• Comte Bittencourt on Instagram
• Comte Bittencourt on Twitter

• 1957 births
• Living people
• Politicians from Rio de Janeiro (city)
• People from Niterói
• Brazilian Social Democracy Party politicians
• Cidadania politicians
• Members of the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro
• Bettencourt family