Rogério Oliveira da Cruz (born 1 September 1966) is a Brazilian Evangelical pastor affiliated with the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, radio personality, and politician who has been the mayor of Goiânia since 2021.
He was an administrator and radio talk show host during his years with Grupo Record, as well as with the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, of which he is a member and pastor of.
[6] In mid-2019, it was speculated that he would not be a candidate for council and had decided to focus exclusively on his position as a pastor with the Universal Church,[7] which had been confirmed by a religious leader in 2020.
[16] However, several weeks later, he joined other mayors in the metropolitan region and closed all non-essential businesses[17] and opted to sanction an emergency line for 6 months for families that did not have any kind of formal income,[18] called Renda Família,[19] accompanied by new vaccines.
[22][23][24] As a consequence, by April, every politician from Vilela's party, the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB), called on secretaries to collectively ask for exoneration in protest to the abandonment of government plans, as well as the suspension of contracts made by former mayor Iris Rezende.