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Simão Sessim
Simão Sessim (8 December 1935 – 16 August 2021) was a Brazilian lawyer, teacher and politician who served ten consecutive terms as a federal deputy for Rio de Janeiro for several centre-right political parties and spent 40 years in the Chamber of Deputies (Brazil), Chamber of Deputies. He was a cousin of Farid Abraão David, former mayor of Nilópolis, and Anísio Abraão David, an illegal lottery operator (Jogo do Bicho, bicheiro) and the patron of the ''GRES Beija-Flor de Nilópolis, Beija-Flor'' samba school in Nilópolis, that has won 14 parades of the Rio Carnival, Carnaval do Rio de Janeiro. Early life At the beginning of the 20th century, many Lebanese Brazilians, Syrian-Lebanese immigrants settled in Nilópolis, among them the patriarchs of the Sessim and Abraão David families, who established themselves as local merchants in the 1920s. In the 1960s, the family began a career in politics. In 1962, his brother doctor Jorge Sessim David was elected to the Legislative A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chamber Of Deputies (Brazil)
The Chamber of Deputies () is a federal legislative body and the lower house of the National Congress of Brazil. The chamber comprises 513 deputies, who are elected by proportional representation to serve four-year terms. The current president of the chamber is the Deputy Hugo Motta ( Republicanos- PB), who was elected on 1 February 2025. Structure The number of deputies elected is proportional to the size of the population of the respective state (or of the Federal District) as of 1994. However, no delegation can be made up of less than eight or more than seventy seats. Thus the least populous state elects eight federal deputies and the most populous elects seventy. These restrictions favour the smaller states at the expense of the more populous states and so the size of the delegations is not exactly proportional to population. Elections to the Chamber of Deputies are held every four years, with all seats up for election. Federal representation A census held every 10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |