Hugo Motta

Hugo Motta has a significant political lineage, being the grandson of Nabor Wanderley, former Mayor of Patos (PB), and of Edivaldo Fernandes Motta, former State Representative and former Federal Representative. His grandmother, Francisca Motta, was also elected Mayor of Patos in 2012.

Political career

His political career involved two party affiliations. He joined the MDB in 2005 and remained until 2018, when he joined the Republicanos, his current party. At age 21, in 2010, he became the youngest politician ever elected, winning 86,150 votes. During his term, he served as a member and president of the Financial Oversight and Control Committee (CFFC).

He was re-elected in 2014 with 123,686 votes, standing out for voting in favor of the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff and against opening an investigation against former President Michel Temer. In 2015, he was nominated by the MDB to chair the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) on Petrobras.

In the 2018 elections, he ran for the Republicanos party and received 92,468 votes, ranking as the fifth most voted candidate. During that legislature, he served several times as Deputy Leader of blocs and of his party.

Performance in the National Congress

• In 2010, he was elected the youngest federal deputy in Brazil, at age 21. He received 86,150 votes.
• During his second term, he chaired the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into Petrobras and the House of Representatives's Commission for Financial Oversight and Control;
• In 2016, during the impeachment process of former president Dilma Rousseff (PT), he voted in favor of removing her from office;
• In 2018, two years later, however, he came out in defense of the mandate of former president Michel Temer, with whom he was a political ally;
• In 2018, he was re-elected for a third term as a federal deputy, this time representing the Republicans of Paraíba, with 92,468 votes;
• In his third term, he also joined the support base for the government of former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL);
• In 2021, he assumed the leadership of the Republicans in the House;
• In 2022, he was re-elected for a fourth term in the House of Representatives with a historic vote of 158,171 votes, making him the most voted candidate for federal deputy in the state;
• In 2023, Hugo Motta returned to being the leader of the Republicans in the House;
• In April 2023, he was elected national vice president of the Republicans.