Sérgio Cabral Filho | |
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61st Governor of Rio de Janeiro | |
In office 1 January 2007 – 3 April 2014 |
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Vice Governor | Luiz Fernando Pezão |
Preceded by | Rosinha Garotinho |
Succeeded by | Luiz Fernando Pezão |
Member of the Federal Senate from Rio de Janeiro |
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In office 1 February 2003 – 31 December 2006 |
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Preceded by | Geraldo Cândido |
Succeeded by | Régis Fichtner |
President of the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro | |
In office 1 January 1995 – 1 January 2003 |
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Preceded by | José Nader |
Succeeded by | Jorge Picciani |
Member of a State Assembly | |
In office 1 January 1991 – 1 January 2003 |
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Constituency | Rio de Janeiro |
Personal details | |
Born |
Sérgio de Oliveira Cabral Santos Filho 27 January 1963 Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Nationality | Brazilian |
Political party | PMDB |
Spouse(s) | Adriana de Lourdes Ancelmo (2004–2011; separated) |
Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Sérgio de Oliveira Cabral Santos Filho (born January 27, 1963) is a Brazilian politician and journalist.
In the 2006 Brazilian general elections, he was elected governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro; he was sworn into office on January 1, 2007.
His father is journalist Sérgio Cabral.
Cabral Filho was a state representative for the state of Rio de Janeiro between 1991 and 2002, having presided the State Assembly 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 in order to run in the Rio de Janeiro Gubernatorial elections, having been replaced in Senate by Regis Fitchner.
He had also run for Mayor of the city of Rio de Janeiro in 1996 with a PSDB ticket, but his election as governor happened after he had transferred to PMDB, in which occasion he and his running mate, Luiz Fernando de Sousa, had 5,129,064 votes in the run-off (68% of the total valid votes statewide) with PPS's Denise Frossard (who had 32% of the valid votes).
Cabral was chosen to give apologies to 120 people, including Dilma Rousseff the 36th President of Brazil, regarding human rights abuses suffered during the dictatorship that ruled Brazil from 1961 to 1985.