General Girão

He ran for the post of Federal Deputy in 2018, for the PSL. After a long political campaign, where he traveled more than 40 thousand kilometers within the State of Rio Grande do Norte, visiting 117 of the 167 municipalities in the State, Girão was elected with 81,640 votes. He obtained at least one vote in each of the 167 municipalities.

Between January 2016 and March 2018, he was Municipal Secretary for Public Security, Civil Defense, Urban Mobility and Traffic in Mossoró-RN.

In March 2014 he was invited to take over the Secretary of Public Security and Social Defense of the State of Rio Grande do Norte. He was in charge of the Public Security Portfolio during the World Cup games in the State of Rio Grande do Norte. The state capital was considered the best host city, in terms of Public Security, by a survey conducted by FIFA. General Girão was also President of the State Council for Combating Drugs in the State of Rio Grande do Norte.

In 2012, Girão assumed the Secretariat of Justice and Citizenship of the State of Roraima, having also been the President of the State Council on Drug Policy. He was the creator and executor of Campaigns for the Prevention of Drug Use until July 2013.

When he moved to the Reserve, on request, on 31 March 2009, he assumed the Secretariat of Public Security of the State of Roraima, having remained until February 2012. As Secretary of Security for the State of Roraima, he held leadership roles with the College National Security Secretaries (CONSESP), idealizing the creation of Thematic Chambers for the study and presentation of proposals to the Ministry of Justice that would give more flexibility, efficiency and effectiveness to Public Security actions throughout the country.

Girão was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General in 2007. He commanded the 1st Jungle Infantry Brigade, in Roraima, until mid-2008. He returned to Brasilia to assume the Transport and Mobilization Directorate of the Army Logistics Command and Chief of the Planning Office and Management of the same Logistics Command until 2009.

Abroad, in addition to the specific duties of the attaché, Girão gave lectures on Brazil, the Armed Forces and the Amazon, in institutions of secondary and higher education, civil and military. Upon returning to Brazil, he served as Subcomandante of the School for the Improvement of Officers – ESAO, in 2005 and 2006, at the time commanded by the Former Army Commander, General Villas Boas.

General Girão commanded the Brigade Command Company, in Recife (PE), was General Staff Officer in Battalions and Brigades, standing out in the Parachutist, Jungle, Caatinga and Motorized Infantry Troops. He served as Deputy and Chief of Subchefia of the Military House of the Presidency of the Republic, in Brasília (DF), between 1996 and 1999. He commanded the 7th Jungle Infantry Battalion – 7th BIS, in Roraima, between 2000 and 2001. After the Battalion Command de Selva, Girão held the diplomatic post of Military Defense Attaché for two years in the Republic of Poland.

Eliéser Girão Monteiro Filho, also known as General Girão (8 May 1955), is a Brazilian politician and military officer, affiliated to the PSL. He is currently a federal deputy for the state of Rio Grande do Norte.

Girão was born in Fortaleza, on 8 May 1955. He joined the Brazilian Army in February 1973. He graduated in Military Sciences at the Military Academy of Agulhas Negras – AMAN, on 14 December 1976, being declared an Aspirant-to-Officer of the Infantry Weapon.