Jéssica Sales
Jéssica Sales | |
|---|---|
 Sales in 2015 | |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| Assumed office 1 February 2015 | |
| Constituency | Acre |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Jésica Rojas Sales 28 November 1980 Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre, Brazil |
| Political party | MDB (since 2011) |
| Profession | Physician |
Jéssica Rojas Sales (born 28 November 1980) is a Brazilian politician as well as a physician and gynocologist. She has spent her political career representing Acre, having served as federal deputy representative of Acre since 2015.[1]
Personal life[edit]
Sales comes from a political family, being the daughter of the former mayor of Cruzeiro do Sul, Vagner Sales, and former congresswoman Antonia Sales.[2] Before becoming a politician, she worked as a medic, more specifically a gynecologist.[3]
Political career[edit]
In the 2014 Brazilian general election Sales was elected to the Federal Chamber of Deputies with 20,339. She was the fifth most voted for candidate from Acre in the election.[4]
Sales voted in favor of the impeachment motion of then-president Dilma Rousseff.[5] She voted in favor of tax reforms and the 2017 Brazilian labor reform,[6] and voted against opening a corruption investigation into Rousseff's successor Michel Temer.[7]
References[edit]
- ^ "Jéssica Sales – Biografia". Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 6 March 2022.
- ^ "Deputada acriana reafirma voto pelo impeachment e nega boatos de que faltaria votação" [Acre congresswoman reaffirms vote for impeachment and denies rumors that she would miss the vote]. contilnetnoticias.com (in Portuguese). 17 September 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
- ^ "'Não tem chance de eu ser vice de ninguém, quero ser senadora', diz Jéssica Sales" (in Portuguese). Acre News. 2 August 2021. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
- ^ "Jéssica Sales 1515" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 6 March 2022.
- ^ "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 1 July 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.
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