Marcelo Déda

Who was Marcelo Déda?

Marcelo Déda Chagas was a Brazilian politician. He was mayor of Aracaju from 2000 to 2006, and was elected in 2006 and 2010 as Governor of Sergipe.

Déda was born in Simão Dias. His political militancy had begun in the Movement Secundarista. His first contact with the DCE was at the Federal University of Sergipe, during the lifetime of the student leftist political group in the University called "Action".

In 1982, in the first election of the PT, Déda was nominated as a candidate for state representative. He was 22 years old, and he obtained barely 300 votes. In 1985, he was active during the elections for mayor in Aracaju and the present governor candidate. The campaign took off, and Marcelo Déda achieved second place at the ballot box, with approximately 19,000 votes.

He was chosen, in 1986, as state representative, with the biggest voting of its legislature. His more than thirty thousand votes were so significant, that elected, also, was another partisan, Marcelo Ribeiro, who had little more than 1,000 votes.

It was disputed, in 1990, for the re-election for the assembly, but was defeated obtaining little more of 10% of the previous voting. Four years afterwards, in 1994, he ran for the Federal Chamber, being chosen federal representative, with the biggest voting of the state.