Francisco Floriano

Francisco Floriano de Sousa Silva (born 21 September 1959) more commonly known as Fábio Sousa is a Brazilian politician. He has spent his political career representing Rio de Janeiro, having served as state representative from 2011 to 2019.[1]

Francisco Floriano
Floriano in April 2016
Federal Deputy for Rio de Janeiro
In office
1 February 2011 – 31 January 2019
Personal details
Born (1959-09-21) 21 September 1959
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Political partyDEM (2016–present)
Other political
affiliations		PL (2010–2016)

Personal life

Floriano is the son of Evaristo Lopes da Silva e Maria de Sousa Silva,[1] and is married to Elias Pereira da Silva. He is a pastor in the neo-Pentecostal church Igreja Mundial do Poder de Deus.[2]

Political career

Floriano voted in favor of the impeachment of then-president Dilma Rousseff.[3] Floriano voted in favor of the 2017 Brazilian labor reform,[4] and would oppose a corruption investigation into Rousseff's successor Michel Temer.[5]

In 2017 Floriano was found guilty of diverting government funds for the usage of his church.[2] He was also convicted of lying under oath and taking financial advantage of prisoners during his church's mission visits to prisons. As a result, he and his family were barred from visiting prisons in Rio de Janeiro and he was barred from running in the 2018 election.[6]

References
  1. "FRANCISCO FLORIANO – Biografia". Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 12 March 2019.
  2. "Deputado Francisco Floriano participou da criação de igrejas de bispo Macedo e Valdomiro Santiago" (in Portuguese). O Globo. 4 November 2017. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
  3. "Reforma trabalhista: como votaram os deputados" (in Portuguese). Carta Capital. 27 April 2017. Archived from the original on 9 April 2012. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
  4. "Veja como deputados votaram no impeachment de Dilma, na PEC 241, na reforma trabalhista e na denúncia contra Temer" [See how deputies voted in the impeachment of Dilma, in PEC 241, in the labor reform and in the denunciation against Temer] (in Portuguese). O Globo. 2 August 2017. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  5. "Como votou cada deputado sobre a denúncia contra Temer" (in Portuguese). Carta Capital. 4 August 2017. Archived from the original on 9 April 2012. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
  6. "Deputado deu informação errada ao pedir audiência com ministro da Justiça" (in Portuguese). O Globo. 11 July 2017. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
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