Sóstenes Cavalcante Explained

Sóstenes Cavalcante
Office:Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Term Start:1 February 2015
Constituency:Rio de Janeiro
Office1:Second Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies
Term Start1:1 February 2023
President1:Arthur Lira
Predecessor1:André de Paula
Birth Name:Sóstenes Silva Cavalcante
Birth Date:16 January 1975
Birth Place:Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil
Party:PL (2022–present)
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Religion:Christian
Denomination:Neopentecostal
Church:Assembly of God

Sóstenes Silva Cavalcante (born 16 January 1975) is a Brazilian politician and pastor. Although born in Alagoas, he has spent his political career representing Rio de Janeiro (state), having served as state representative since 2015.[1]

Personal life

Cacalcante is married to Isleia Cavalcante. He is a pastor of the Assembleias de Deus church.[2]

Political career

Cavalcante voted in favor of the impeachment against then-president Dilma Rousseff and political reformation.[3] He would later back Rousseff's successor Michel Temer against a similar impeachment motion, and also voted in favor of the Brazil labor reform (2017).[4]

Due to his evangelical beliefs Cacalcante is strongly against same-sex marriage, and since his time in the chambers of deputies has been pushing for a bill that would define marriage as exclusively between a man and woman.[5] During his time in office Cacalcante has lobbied with other evangelical politicians including Eduardo Cunha and Everaldo Pereira.[6]

PL 1904/2024

In 2024, he proposed the PL 1904/2024, which equates abortion after 22 weeks of gestation to simple homicide and restrictions, including in cases of pregnancy resulting from rape, cases in which abortion is permitted under current legislation.[7] [8]

Cavalcante stated that he proposed the bill to "test" whether Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva would fulfill his promise not to veto projects of a moral nature.[9] [10]

The project was accepted by the president of the Chamber, Arthur Lira, and began to be processed urgently after a controversial symbolic vote, which generated a wave of protests over its content, given that the proposal would equate the penalty for abortion after 22 weeks of gestation to that of the crime of homicide, being greater than the penalty for the crime of rape itself and therefore penalizing the victim more than the rapist. [11] [12] [13]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sóstenes CAVALCANTE – Biografia. Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil . pt . 25 February 2019.
  2. Web site: Pr. Sóstenes Cavalcante passa a ser suplente na CDH e não poderá concorrer à presidência da Comissão. Guia-me . 6 March 2015 . 25 February 2019. pt.
  3. News: Reforma trabalhista: como votaram os deputados. https://web.archive.org/web/20120409132414/https://www.cartacapital.com.br/blogs/parlatorio/reforma-trabalhista-como-votaram-os-deputados. 9 April 2012. dead. Carta Capital . pt . 27 April 2017. 18 September 2017.
  4. News: Como votou cada deputado sobre a denúncia contra Temer. https://web.archive.org/web/20120409132414/https://www.cartacapital.com.br/politica/como-votou-cada-deputado-sobre-a-denuncia-contra-temer. 9 April 2012. dead. Carta Capital. pt . 4 August 2017. 18 September 2017.
  5. Web site: Pastor Sóstenes Cavalcante vai presidir comissão especial do Estatuto da Família na Câmara. Gospel Mais. Thiago. Chagas. 13 March 2015. 25 February 2019. pt.
  6. Web site: Para enfrentar denúncia, Cunha se ampara em grupo construído entre evangélicos . O Globo. Juliana . Castro . Leticia . Fernandes . Marcelo. Remigio. 23 August 2015. 25 February 2019. pt.
  7. Web site: 2024-06-12 . Aborto no Brasil: o que está em jogo com projeto que torna homicídio interromper gestação após as 22 semanas . 2024-06-21 . BBC News Brasil . pt-br.
  8. Web site: 2024-06-13 . Pena pode ser maior que a do estuprador: veja o que muda com PL antiaborto . 2024-06-21 . UOL . pt-br.
  9. Web site: 2024-06-14 . ‘Nós não podemos aceitar’, diz ministra das mulheres sobre PL do aborto . 2024-06-21 . CartaCapital . pt-BR.
  10. Web site: 2024-06-12 . Autor do projeto que equipara aborto a homicídio diz que bancada quer 'testar' Lula sobre veto . 2024-06-21 . G1 . pt-br.
  11. Web site: 2024-06-14 . PL do aborto mobiliza a sociedade e leva protestos às ruas em meio a silêncio do governo; Lira sinaliza recuo . 2024-06-21 . O Globo . pt-br.
  12. Web site: redacaonos . Famosas se posicionam contra PL que equipara aborto a homicídio: "Isso é nojento e cruel" . 2024-06-21 . Terra . pt-BR.
  13. Web site: CNN . Da . Em votação popular no site da Câmara, 70% discordam totalmente de PL que equipara aborto ao homicídio . 2024-06-21 . CNN Brasil.