Eduardo Cunha
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| President of the Chamber of Deputies | |
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In office 1 February 2015 – 7 July 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Henrique Eduardo Alves |
| Succeeded by | Waldir Maranhão (Acting) |
| Federal Deputy for Rio de Janeiro | |
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In office 1 February 2003 – 12 September 2016 |
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Eduardo Cosentino da Cunha 29 September 1958 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Political party |
PP (1994–2003) PMDB (2003–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Cristina Bastos Dytz (Divorced) Cláudia Cruz |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater | Cândido Mendes University |
| Religion | Evangelicalism |
Eduardo Cosentino da Cunha (born September 29, 1958), is a Brazilian politician and radio host, born in Rio de Janeiro. He was President of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil from 2015 to 2016, when he resigned the position. BBC News labeled him the "nemesis" of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. He was indicted in the scandal known as Operation Car Wash involving the state-owned oil company Petrobras. Cunha was suspended as speaker of the lower house by Brazil's Supreme Court on 5 May 2016 due to allegations that he had attempted to intimidate members of Congress and obstructed investigations into his alleged bribe-taking. The Chamber of Deputies voted 450-10 on 12 September 2016 to strip Cunha of his position as federal deputy for breaching of parliamentary decorum by lying about secret offshore bank accounts.
On October 19, 2016, Cunha was arrested by the Brazilian Federal Police, accused of hiding approximately US$40 million worth of bribes in secret bank accounts. and for trying to tamper with investigations against him.
Born in Rio de Janeiro on September 29, 1958, Eduardo Cunha is the son of Elcy Teixeira da Cunha and Elza Cosentino. As his mother descended from Italian immigrants from the town of Castelluccio Inferiore in the region of Basilicata, he also holds Italian citizenship. When he was 14 years old, he began working part-time as an insurance broker. Later, he worked as an auditor at the firm Arthur Andersen, from 1978 to 1980. He majored in economics at the Universidade Candido Mendes, and served as an economist at Xerox of Brazil, between 1980 and 1982.
Cunha has four children. He is currently married to journalist Cláudia Cruz.
Eduardo Cunha is a conservative evangelical Christian. He seeks to ban abortion, increase marijuana penalties, and further restrict homosexual activity. As an evangelist, Cunha has proposed legislation titled The Law of Heterophobia (in response to the Law of Homophobia). The law demands a prison sentence of one to three years for anyone who forbids entry to a heterosexual to any public or private property, levies special rates at hotels or restricts the public display of affection.
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