Jéssica Sales

Jéssica Sales
Sales in 2015
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 February 2015
ConstituencyAcre
Personal details
Born
Jésica Rojas Sales

(1980-11-28) 28 November 1980 (age 44)
Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre, Brazil
Political partyMDB (since 2011)
ProfessionPhysician

Jéssica Rojas Sales (born 28 November 1980) is a Brazilian politician as well as a physician and gynocologist. She has spent her political career representing Acre, having served as federal deputy representative of Acre since 2015.[1]

Personal life

Sales comes from a political family, being the daughter of the former mayor of Cruzeiro do Sul, Vagner Sales, and former congresswoman Antonia Sales.[2] Before becoming a politician, she worked as a medic, more specifically a gynecologist.[3]

Political career

In the 2014 Brazilian general election Sales was elected to the Federal Chamber of Deputies with 20,339. She was the fifth most voted for candidate from Acre in the election.[4]

Sales voted in favor of the impeachment motion of then-president Dilma Rousseff.[5] She voted in favor of tax reforms and the 2017 Brazilian labor reform,[6] and voted against opening a corruption investigation into Rousseff's successor Michel Temer.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Jéssica Sales – Biografia". Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  2. ^ "Deputada acriana reafirma voto pelo impeachment e nega boatos de que faltaria votação" [Acre congresswoman reaffirms vote for impeachment and denies rumors that she would miss the vote]. contilnetnoticias.com (in Portuguese). 17 September 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  3. ^ "'Não tem chance de eu ser vice de ninguém, quero ser senadora', diz Jéssica Sales" (in Portuguese). Acre News. 2 August 2021. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Jéssica Sales 1515" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^ "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 1 July 2019.
  7. ^ "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.


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