Rodrigo Maia

Rodrigo Maia
Maia in 2019
Federal Deputy
In office
1 February 1999 – 1 February 2023
ConstituencyRio de Janeiro
Secretary of State of Projects and Strategic Actions of São Paulo
In office
20 August 2021 – 5 October 2022
GovernorJoão Doria (2021–2022)
Rodrigo Garcia (2022)
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byTarcila Reis Jordão
President of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
14 July 2016 – 1 February 2021
Preceded byEduardo Cunha
Succeeded byArthur Lira
National President of the Democrats
In office
26 March 2007 – 6 December 2011
Preceded byJorge Bornhausen
Succeeded byJosé Agripino Maia
Personal details
Born
Rodrigo Felinto Ibarra Epitácio Maia

(1970-06-12) 12 June 1970 (age 54)
Santiago, Chile
Political partyPSDB (2022–present)
Other political
affiliations
  • PDT (1989–1998)
  • DEM (1998–1999; 2001–2021)
  • PTB (1999–2001)
Spouse
Patrícia Vasconcelos
(m. 2005)
Children4
Parent(s)Cesar Maia
Mariangeles Ibarra

Rodrigo Felinto Ibarra Epitácio Maia (born 12 June 1970) is a Brazilian politician who served as the President of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil between July 2016 and February 2021.[1] A member of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party since 2022, he is the son of former Rio de Janeiro Mayor Cesar Maia and was reelected five times as a congressman until 2023,[2] when he decided to not run for a sixth term in the Chamber of Deputies.[3] Maia was affiliated to the Democrats party, formerly PFL, from 1996 to 2021, when he was expelled from the party for criticizing the party president, ACM Neto.[4]

  1. ^ "Brazil's Temer ally is new lower house speaker, eyes reforms". Reuters. Archived from the original on July 14, 2016. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
  2. ^ "Biografia do(a) Deputado(a) Federal Rodrigo Maia". Portal da Câmara dos Deputados (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-05-29.
  3. ^ "Rodrigo Maia não vai disputar reeleição para Deputado Federal no RJ". G1 (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2022-04-06. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
  4. ^ "DEM expulsa Rodrigo Maia do partido". CNN Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-05-29.