Francisco Floriano

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 (age 65)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Political partyDEM (2016–present)
Other political
affiliations		PL (2010–2016)

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]

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. ^ a b "FRANCISCO FLORIANO – Biografia". Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 12 March 2019.
  2. ^ a b "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.