Damião Feliciano

Damião Feliciano da Silva (born 28 April 1952) is a Brazilian politician who has been a federal deputy from the state of Paraíba since 2007, having also previously been a federal deputy from 1999 to 2004. He is currently affiliated with the Brazil Union party (UNIÃO). He was the state secretary of Science, Technology, and the Environment from 2005 to 2006. His wife is former vice-governor of Paraíba and fellow doctor Lígia Feliciano.

Biography Born in Campina Grande, he graduated with his medical degree from the Campina Grande School of Medicine. He founded several hospitals in the area, namely Hospital Mariana and Hospital de Urgência, where he had acted as director general and administrative and financial director from 1982 to 1998. From 2005 to 2006, he was state Secretary of Science, Technology, and the Environment as part of the administration of governor Cássio Cunha Lima. He was first elected as a federal deputy in 1998, receiving 76,101 votes and becoming the second most voted for candidate in Paraíba. He lost reelection in 2002, but was elected as a substitute deputy. In the Chamber of Deputies, he has been a part of parliamentary groups, and is the president of the Parliamentary Front in Defense of Health Professionals.

Feliciano voted against the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff. He later voted for a similar inquiry towards the impeachment of Michel Temer. In the same term, he voted in favor of the New Fiscal Regime, but did not vote on the 2017 labor reforms. On 24 November 2020, the creation of an external commission from the Chamber of Deputies was authorized to monitor the investigation into the murder of João Alberto Silveira Freitas in Porto Alegre. The commission is coordinated by Feliciano, and is also composed of five other deputies: Benedita da Silva, Bira do Pindaré, Silvia Cristina, Áurea Carolina and Orlando Silva.