He has represented Rio de Janeiro in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies since 2015.

[1] Before that he was a member of the state legislature of Rio de Janeiro.

Côrtes was born to Altineu Pires Coutinho and Angela Maria Freitas.

[2] Côrtes voted in favor of the impeachment motion of then-president Dilma Rousseff.

[3] Côrtes would vote against a corruption investigation into Rousseff's successor Michel Temer,[4] and he voted in favor of the 2017 Brazilian labor reforms.