On his mother's side, he is the grandson of aeronautic captain Alfredo Daudt,[3] who was one of the service members who stopped the take-off of FAB jets that were sent to bomb Piratini Palace during the Legality Campaign.

Brizola Neto moved with his family to Rio de Janeiro in 1982, when his grandfather was elected governor of the state.

Two years after he was elected, he became a federal deputy for Rio de Janeiro in 2006, thus resigning from his seat early.

[5] He proposed the law that would create the accreditation system for graduate courses, to avoid delaying the process of recognizing diplomas from other countries that are a part of Mercosur.

He was succeeded by Manoel Dias, who was the secretary-general of the PDT and the state president of the Santa Catarina branch.