Sérgio Cabral Filho
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Sérgio de Oliveira Cabral Santos Filho (born January 27, 1963) is a Brazilian politician and a journalist[1]
Sérgio Cabral Filho | |
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61st Governor of Rio de Janeiro | |
In office January 1, 2007 – April 3, 2014 | |
Vice Governor | Luiz Fernando Pezão |
Preceded by | Rosinha Garotinho |
Succeeded by | Luiz Fernando Pezão |
Senator for Rio de Janeiro | |
In office February 1, 2003 – January 1, 2007 | |
President of the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro | |
In office January 1, 1995 – January 1, 2003 | |
Preceded by | José Nader |
Succeeded by | Jorge Picciani |
State Deputy of Rio de Janeiro | |
In office January 1, 1991 – January 1, 2003 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Sérgio de Oliveira Cabral Santos Filho (1963-01-27) January 27, 1963 (age 61) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Political party | MDB (1980-1992; 1999-present) |
Other political affiliations | PSDB (1992-1999) |
Spouse | Adriana de Lourdes Ancelmo (2004–2011; separated) |
He was elected governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro in the 2006 Brazilian general election and sworn into office on January 1, 2007. Cabral Filho was a representative in the Rio de Janeiro state legislature from 1991 to 2002 and its president from 1995 to 2002. In the 2002 general elections, he was elected senator for the state of Rio de Janeiro, a position he occupied from January 2003 until December 2006, when he resigned to run in the Rio de Janeiro gubernatorial elections, having been replaced in Brazilian Senate by Regis Fichtner Velasco [pt].
He ran for mayor of Rio de Janeiro in 1996 on a PSDB Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB) ticket, but his election as governor happened after he switched to the PMDB (Brazilian Democratic Movement Party). He and his running mate, Luiz Fernando de Sousa, won 68% of the valid votes (5,129,064 votes) in the second round of voting against the Popular Socialist Party (PPS) candidate Denise Frossard, who received only 32% of valid votes.
Cabral was selected to make formal apologies to 120 individuals, including Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's 36th president, for human rights abuses inflicted on them during the dictatorship that was in power in Brazil from 1964 to 1985.
On November 17, 2016, Cabral was arrested on charges of corruption.[2] He has been sentenced to jail.