Fábio Sousa

Fábio Sousa
Fábio Sousa
Federal Deputy for Goiás
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 1 February 2015
State Deputy for Goiás
	In office; 2006–2014
Personal details
Born	11 September 1982 (age 42); Goiânia, Brazil
Political party	PSDB
Profession	Pastor, media personality, public relations manager

Fábio Fernandes de Sousa (born 11 September 1982) is a Brazilian politician. He has spent his political career representing Goiás, having served as state representative since 2015.^[1]

Personal life

Sousa is the son of Cesar Augusto Machado de Sousa and Rubia Pinheiro Fernandes de Sousa.^[1] He is married to physician and pastor Priscila Sousa. A graduate of the Gestão Pública e Teologia, Sousa worked for a time for the evangelical television and radio station Nossa Gente na Fonte TV.^[2] Aside from being a pastor, Sousa currently works as a pastor, media personality, and a public relations manager.^[1] Sousa and his wife are both bishops of the evangelical church the Igreja Fonte da Vida.^[2]

Political career

Sousa was first elected to the Goiás state legislative assembly in 2006 with 28,872 votes. In 2010 he was reelected with 37,132 votes.^[2] He became president of the Goiás in 2012 when his party, the PSDB, won a majority.^[2] That same year he was chosen by his party to run for the federal chamber of deputies in the .^[3]

Sousa voted in favor of the impeachment of then-president Dilma Rousseff.^[4] Sousa voted in favor of the 2017 Brazilian labor reform,^[5] and would vote in favor of a corruption investigation into Rousseff's successor Michel Temer.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "FÁBIO SOUSA – Biografia". Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 11 March 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "FÁBIO SOUSA – Biografia". Assembileia Legislativa do Goiás (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 1 February 2019. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
^ "PSDB escolhe Fábio Sousa para disputar prefeitura de Goiânia" (in Portuguese). Rede Fonte. 23 September 2010. Retrieved 26 June 2010.
^ "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.
^ "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.
^ "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.

[bio-1] "FÁBIO SOUSA – Biografia". Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 11 March 2019.

[biog-2] "FÁBIO SOUSA – Biografia". Assembileia Legislativa do Goiás (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 1 February 2019. Retrieved 11 March 2019.

[3] "PSDB escolhe Fábio Sousa para disputar prefeitura de Goiânia" (in Portuguese). Rede Fonte. 23 September 2010. Retrieved 26 June 2010.

[4] "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.

[5] "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.

[6] "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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