Félix Braz

Félix Braz (born 16 March 1966) is a Portuguese-Luxembourgish politician who served as Second Deputy Prime Minister of Luxembourg from 2018 to 2019. A member of the Greens, Braz also served as Minister of Justice in the Bettel I coalition government.

In October 2019, he was granted an "honourable resignation" from his position as Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice, having suffered a major heart attack in August of that year that briefly left him in a coma. Now retired from politics, Braz has contested this involuntary resignation as "forced" and "unlawful", unsuccessfully challenging the decision with the Administrative Tribunal and Court.

Biography Braz, the son of Portuguese immigrants living in Luxembourg since 1960, was born in Differdange in 1966. After secondary school, he started studying law at Panthéon-Sorbonne University, but broke off his studies after one year. and was re-elected in 2009 and 2013.

Honours Grand Cross of the Order of Merit (23 May 2017)