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Sérgio Cabral Filho

Sérgio Cabral Filho
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61st Governor of Rio de Janeiro
In office
1 January 2007 – 3 April 2014
Vice Governor Luiz Fernando Pezão
Preceded by Rosinha Garotinho
Succeeded by Luiz Fernando Pezão
Member of the Federal Senate
from Rio de Janeiro
In office
1 February 2003 – 31 December 2006
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
Preceded by José Nader
Succeeded by Jorge Picciani
Member of a State Assembly
In office
1 January 1991 – 1 January 2003
Constituency Rio de Janeiro
Personal details
Born Sérgio de Oliveira Cabral Santos Filho
(1963-01-27) 27 January 1963 (age 54)
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.


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