Benevenuto Daciolo Fonseca dos Santos, known as Cabo Daciolo, is a Brazilian military firefighter and politician affiliated to Podemos. In 2014, he was elected federal deputy. He was expelled from the Socialism and Liberty Party in 2015 and later affiliated himself to the Labour Party of Brazil and then to Patriota. Daciolo gained notoriety in 2011, when he was one of the leaders of the firefighters' strike in Rio de Janeiro. The strikes occupied the headquarters of the corporation and camped in the staircases of the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro. Daciolo was arrested and detained for nine days in the Gericinó Penitentiary Complex. He ran for President of Brazil in the 2018 elections, gaining 1.3% of the popular vote and coming in 6th place.
Personal life
He is married to Cristiane Daciolo and is a father to three children.
Political career
He was elected federal deputy for Rio de Janeiro in the state election of 2014 as a member of the Socialism and Liberty Party. In May 2015, PSOL National Directory voted, 53 to 1, to expel Daciolo from the party after he proposed a constitutional amendment to alter the first paragraph of the Brazilian Constitution from "all power comes from the people" to "all power comes from God", which, according to the party, harms the secular State. In addition, in March 2015, Daciolo angered PSOL after he defended the release of the 12 cops accused of participating of the torture and death of the bricklayer Amarildo Dias de Souza in 2013. In the same meeting, PSOL also voted, 31 to 24, to not claim Daciolo's term to the Superior Electoral Court. In 2016 he affiliated himself to the Labour Party of Brazil. In December 2017, it was reported the acquisition of Daciolo by the Supreme Federal Court based in a law proposed by him when he was subject of a lawsuit. Daciolo was a defendant in a criminal lawsuit for criminal association and for many other devices of the National Security Law, but benefited from his own law, which pardoned firefighters and military police officers from many states that had participation in strikes between 2011 and 2015. In 2018 he left AVANTE and joined Patriota, which on 28 March 2018, selected him as pre-candidate for President of Brazil in the 2018 general election. Daciolo obtained 1,343,944 votes, arriving 6th and did not endorse any candidate in the second turn.
