Marco Antônio Cabral

The grandson of journalist and music researcher Sérgio Cabral, Marco is the fruit of a relationship between politician Sérgio Cabral and Susana Neves, a cousin of fellow politician Aécio Neves.{{Cite web |last=Seara |first=Berenice |date=December 31, 2025 |title=Susana Cabral, ex-mulher de Sérgio Cabral, e suas andanças pelo Congresso |url=https://extra.globo.com/noticias/extra-extra/susana-cabral-ex-mulher-de-sergio-cabral-suas-andancas-pelo-congresso-18384988.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161207093619/https://extra.globo.com/noticias/extra-extra/susana-cabral-ex-mulher-de-sergio-cabral-suas-andancas-pelo-congresso-18384988.html |archive-date=December 7, 2016 |access-date=April 7, 2025 |website=Extra |language=pt-BR}}{{Cite web |date=January 27, 2017 |title=A pensão milionária de 'Manoel', ex-mulher de Cabral |url=https://veja.abril.com.br/politica/a-pensao-milionaria-de-manoel-ex-mulher-de-cabral/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225024228/https://veja.abril.com.br/politica/a-pensao-milionaria-de-manoel-ex-mulher-de-cabral/ |archive-date=December 25, 2018 |access-date=April 7, 2025 |website=Veja |language=pt-BR}}{{Cite web |date=September 17, 2018 |title="Você não merece pagar pelos meus erros", diz Cabral a filho candidato |url=https://noticias.uol.com.br/politica/eleicoes/2018/noticias/2018/09/17/voce-nao-merece-pagar-pelos-meus-erros-diz-cabral-a-filho-candidato.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221212144314/https://noticias.uol.com.br/politica/eleicoes/2018/noticias/2018/09/17/voce-nao-merece-pagar-pelos-meus-erros-diz-cabral-a-filho-candidato.htm |archive-date=December 12, 2022 |access-date=April 8, 2025 |website=UOL Eleições 2018 |language=pt-BR}} Born in Rio de Janeiro, he studied at the traditional Catholic St. Ignatius College, in the Botafogo neighborhood, where he became a student leader.{{Cite web |last=Medina |first=Alessandra |date=February 18, 2017 |title=Filho de Cabral relata drama familiar após prisão do pai |url=https://vejario.abril.com.br/programe-se/filho-de-cabral-relata-drama-familiar-apos-prisao-do-pai/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250407132940/https://vejario.abril.com.br/programe-se/filho-de-cabral-relata-drama-familiar-apos-prisao-do-pai/ |archive-date=April 7, 2025 |access-date=April 7, 2025 |website=Veja Rio |language=pt-BR}}

At school, he met his classmate Mariana Noleto at the age of 13 and they began dating.{{Cite web |last=Amado |first=Guilherme |date=July 12, 2011 |title=Mariana Noleto e Marco Antônio Cabral: um namoro que nasceu aos 13 anos |url=https://extra.globo.com/noticias/rio/mariana-noleto-marco-antonio-cabral-um-namoro-que-nasceu-aos-13-anos-2215572.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811090223/https://extra.globo.com/noticias/rio/mariana-noleto-marco-antonio-cabral-um-namoro-que-nasceu-aos-13-anos-2215572.html |archive-date=August 11, 2014 |access-date=April 7, 2025 |website=Extra |language=pt-BR}} After finishing school, the couple stayed together.{{Cite web |last=Gomes |first=Antero |date=April 2, 2014 |title=Marco Antônio Cabral: um político em construção |url=https://extra.globo.com/noticias/rio/marco-antonio-cabral-um-politico-em-construcao-4462529.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205232019/https://extra.globo.com/noticias/rio/marco-antonio-cabral-um-politico-em-construcao-4462529.html |archive-date=February 5, 2017 |access-date=April 7, 2025 |website=Extra |language=pt-BR}} Mariana was studying psychology and died at the age of 20 in a helicopter crash off the coast of Bahia.{{Cite web |last=Thum |first=Tássia |date=June 20, 2011 |title=Corpo de namorada do filho de Cabral é enterrado no Rio |url=https://g1.globo.com/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/2011/06/corpo-de-namorada-do-filho-de-cabral-e-enterrado-no-rio.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210211193821/https://g1.globo.com/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/2011/06/corpo-de-namorada-do-filho-de-cabral-e-enterrado-no-rio.html |archive-date=February 11, 2021 |access-date=April 7, 2025 |website=G1 |language=pt-br}}{{Cite web |date=July 18, 2011 |title=Acidente aéreo mata namorada de filho de Sérgio Cabral |url=https://oglobo.globo.com/rio/acidente-aereo-mata-namorada-de-filho-de-sergio-cabral-2874301 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120702154837/https://oglobo.globo.com/rio/acidente-aereo-mata-namorada-de-filho-de-sergio-cabral-2874301 |archive-date=July 2, 2012 |access-date=April 7, 2025 |website=O Globo |language=pt-BR}} Marco studied law at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio).{{Cite web |date=December 22, 2014 |title=Recém-formado, filho de Cabral é nomeado secretário estadual no Rio |url=https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/vida-publica/recem-formado-filho-de-cabral-e-nomeado-secretario-estadual-no-rio-ehnjbrdjislrpisxc4e44guoe/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250407134351/https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/vida-publica/recem-formado-filho-de-cabral-e-nomeado-secretario-estadual-no-rio-ehnjbrdjislrpisxc4e44guoe/ |archive-date=April 7, 2025 |access-date=April 7, 2025 |website=Gazeta do Povo |language=pt-BR}}{{Cite web |date=September 11, 2014 |title=Debates eleitorais com deputados estaduais e federais {{!}} Núcleo de Memória |url=http://nucleodememoria.vrac.puc-rio.br/instrumentos-de-pesquisa/cronologia/2014/09/debates-eleitorais-com-deputados-estaduais-federais |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.ph/kjoGE |archive-date=April 7, 2025 |access-date=April 7, 2025 |website=Núcleo de Memória da PUC-Rio |publisher=Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro}}

File:Ex._Presidente_do_JPMDB_Marco_Antonio_Cabral_-_14177676504.jpg

Marco Antônio Cabral began his political career very early, at the age of eleven, accompanying his father, Sérgio Cabral Filho, who was then running for the Senate in 2002.{{Cite web |date=October 6, 2002 |title=No Rio, eleição para o Senado é marcada pela derrota de Brizola |url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/brasil/ult96u39651.shtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250127003355/https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/brasil/ult96u39651.shtml |archive-date=January 27, 2025 |access-date=April 7, 2024 |website=Folha de S. Paulo}} He was president of the Student Guild at Colégio Santo Inácio and was very active in youth activism. In 2009 he was elected State Youth President of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) in Rio de Janeiro and in 2011 he was elected National Youth President of the same party.{{Cite web |date=September 8, 2014 |title=Conheça Marco Antônio Cabral, candidato a deputado federal pelo Rio |url=https://extra.globo.com/noticias/brasil/conheca-marco-antonio-cabral-candidato-deputado-federal-pelo-rio-13862899.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250407140251/https://extra.globo.com/noticias/brasil/conheca-marco-antonio-cabral-candidato-deputado-federal-pelo-rio-13862899.html |archive-date=April 7, 2025 |access-date=April 7, 2025 |website=Extra |language=pt-BR}}{{Cite web |last=Castro |first=Juliana |date=December 10, 2013 |title=Em evento, PMDB do Rio 'treina' juventude do partido para defender governo Cabral |url=https://oglobo.globo.com/politica/em-evento-pmdb-do-rio-treina-juventude-do-partido-para-defender-governo-cabral-11032051 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250407140700/https://oglobo.globo.com/politica/em-evento-pmdb-do-rio-treina-juventude-do-partido-para-defender-governo-cabral-11032051 |archive-date=April 7, 2025 |access-date=April 7, 2025 |website=O Globo |language=pt-BR}}

In 2012, despite his low grades at university, he got a job on the 13th floor of Rio's City Hall. He got the job through “his father's friends”.{{Cite web |last=Gomes |first=Antero |date=July 17, 2014 |title=Marco Antônio Cabral e Clarissa Garotinho se preparam para disputar uma cadeira na Câmara dos Deputados |url=https://extra.globo.com/noticias/rio/marco-antonio-cabral-clarissa-garotinho-se-preparam-para-disputar-uma-cadeira-na-camara-dos-deputados-11957812.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919094431/https://extra.globo.com/noticias/rio/marco-antonio-cabral-clarissa-garotinho-se-preparam-para-disputar-uma-cadeira-na-camara-dos-deputados-11957812.html |archive-date=September 19, 2018 |access-date=April 7, 2025 |website=Extra |language=pt-BR}} In 2013, he was accused by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) of anticipating electoral propaganda through social networks, and was forced to delete his Facebook account.{{Cite web |date=March 27, 2014 |title=Filho de Sérgio Cabral é multado por propaganda eleitoral antecipada ... |url=https://www.migalhas.com.br/quentes/197982/filho-de-sergio-cabral-e-multado-por-propaganda-eleitoral-antecipada-no-facebook |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250407142720/https://www.migalhas.com.br/quentes/197982/filho-de-sergio-cabral-e-multado-por-propaganda-eleitoral-antecipada-no-facebook |archive-date=April 7, 2025 |access-date=April 7, 2025 |website=Migalhas |language=pt-br}} The following year, he was fined 10,000 reais by the Regional Electoral Court of Rio de Janeiro (TRE-RJ) for anticipated electoral propaganda.

In the 2014 elections, he was elected federal deputy for Rio de Janeiro with 119,584 votes, ranking among the ten most voted for in the state.{{Cite web |last=Pinto |first=Marcus |date=October 6, 2014 |title=Rio renova bancada Federal e Sérgio Cabral elege o filho |url=https://www.terra.com.br/noticias/eleicoes/rio-de-janeiro/rio-renova-bancada-federal-e-sergio-cabral-elege-o-filho,7d22508e963e8410VgnVCM3000009af154d0RCRD.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240519084206/https://www.terra.com.br/noticias/eleicoes/rio-de-janeiro/rio-renova-bancada-federal-e-sergio-cabral-elege-o-filho,7d22508e963e8410VgnVCM3000009af154d0RCRD.html |archive-date=May 19, 2024 |access-date=April 7, 2025 |website=Terra |language=pt-BR}} In December 2014, he was appointed Secretary of Sport, Leisure and Youth of the State of Rio de Janeiro by Governor Luiz Fernando Pezão, his father's successor,{{Cite web |last=Puff |first=Jefferson |date=November 4, 2011 |title=Como Cabral driblou as ruas e elegeu seu sucessor no Rio? |url=https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/noticias/2014/11/141104_cabral_ruas_jf_cq |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250407144626/https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/noticias/2014/11/141104_cabral_ruas_jf_cq |archive-date=April 7, 2025 |access-date=April 7, 2025 |website=BBC News Brasil |language=pt-BR}} and was dismissed on January 19, 2017.{{Cite web |date=January 19, 2017 |title=Filho de Sérgio Cabral é exonerado do cargo de secretário de Esportes e Lazer do governo do Rio de Janeiro |url=https://g1.globo.com/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/filho-de-sergio-cabral-e-exonerado-do-cargo-de-secretario-de-esportes-e-lazer-do-rj.ghtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171230172036/https://g1.globo.com/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/filho-de-sergio-cabral-e-exonerado-do-cargo-de-secretario-de-esportes-e-lazer-do-rj.ghtml |archive-date=December 30, 2017 |access-date=April 7, 2025 |website=G1 |language=pt-br}}{{Cite web |last=Coelho |first=Camilo |date=April 1, 2015 |title=Projeto Esporte RJ volta às atividades, mas com 200 mil alunos a menos {{!}} Blog Favela EC |url=https://ge.globo.com/blogs/especial-blog/favela-ec/post/projeto-esporte-rj-volta-atividades-mas-com-200-mil-alunos-menos.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250408195055/https://ge.globo.com/blogs/especial-blog/favela-ec/post/projeto-esporte-rj-volta-atividades-mas-com-200-mil-alunos-menos.html |archive-date=April 8, 2025 |access-date=April 8, 2025 |website=Globo Esporte |language=pt-br}} He was responsible for bringing the WSL World Surfing Championship back to Saquarema, in the interior of the state.{{Cite web |date=May 2, 2017 |title=Oi Rio Pro estreia nas ondas poderosas de Saquarema |url=https://www.worldsurfleague.com/posts/252315/oi-rio-pro-estreia-nas-ondas-poderosas-de-saquarema |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241211123505/https://www.worldsurfleague.com/posts/252315/oi-rio-pro-estreia-nas-ondas-poderosas-de-saquarema |archive-date=December 11, 2024 |access-date=April 8, 2025 |website=World Surf League |language=en}}

In January 2016, Marco Antônio and Pedro Paulo were sent back to Brasília by the PMDB, leaving the secretariat, to vote in favor of Dilma Rouseff's impeachment process.{{Cite web |title=O voto de cada deputado no impeachment - Brasil |url=https://complemento.veja.abril.com.br/brasil/o-voto-de-cada-deputado-no-impeachment/votacao.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023215326/https://complemento.veja.abril.com.br/brasil/o-voto-de-cada-deputado-no-impeachment/votacao.html |archive-date=October 23, 2020 |access-date=April 7, 2025 |website=Veja}}

During his campaign for federal deputy for Rio de Janeiro, he received almost 7 million reais in donations, including half a million from the construction company Queiroz Galvão.{{Cite web |date=November 6, 2014 |title=Filho de Cabral se elege com metade da campanha bancada por empresas contratadas pela gestão do pai |url=https://noticias.r7.com/brasil/filho-de-cabral-se-elege-com-metade-da-campanha-bancada-por-empresas-contratadas-pela-gestao-do-pai-07112014/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150124034308/http://noticias.r7.com/brasil/filho-de-cabral-se-elege-com-metade-da-campanha-bancada-por-empresas-contratadas-pela-gestao-do-pai-07112014 |archive-date=January 24, 2015 |access-date=April 7, 2025 |website=Noticias R7 |language=pt-BR}} In 2015, this same construction company had more than 160 million reais frozen by the Federal Court because of its links to the Petrobras money laundering scheme uncovered by Operation Car Wash.{{Cite web |last1=Dionísio |first1=Bibiana |last2=Gimenes |first2=Erick |date=April 8, 2015 |title=Justiça bloqueia mais de R$ 160 mi da construtora Queiroz Galvão |url=https://g1.globo.com/pr/parana/noticia/2015/04/justica-bloqueia-mais-de-r-160-mi-da-construtora-queiroz-galvao.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231206044256/http://g1.globo.com/pr/parana/noticia/2015/04/justica-bloqueia-mais-de-r-160-mi-da-construtora-queiroz-galvao.html |archive-date=December 6, 2023 |access-date=April 8, 2025 |website=G1 |language=pt-br}} In August 2017, he voted in favor of President Michel Temer, in the process in which an investigation was being requested, which could remove him from the presidency of the republic.{{Cite web |date=August 3, 2017 |title=Como votou cada deputado sobre a denúncia contra Temer |url=https://www.cartacapital.com.br/politica/como-votou-cada-deputado-sobre-a-denuncia-contra-temer/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241226055909/https://www.cartacapital.com.br/politica/como-votou-cada-deputado-sobre-a-denuncia-contra-temer/ |archive-date=December 26, 2024 |access-date=April 8, 2025 |website=CartaCapital |language=pt-BR}} During his term in office, he missed two important votes, the PEC on the public spending ceiling and the labor reform, both under the Temer government.{{Cite web |date=August 2, 2017 |title=Veja como deputados votaram no impeachment de Dilma, na PEC 241, na reforma trabalhista e na denúncia contra Temer |url=https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/veja-como-deputados-votaram-no-impeachment-de-dilma-na-pec-241-na-reforma-trabalhista-e-na-denuncia-contra-temer.ghtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241201115708/https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/veja-como-deputados-votaram-no-impeachment-de-dilma-na-pec-241-na-reforma-trabalhista-e-na-denuncia-contra-temer.ghtml |archive-date=December 1, 2024 |access-date=April 8, 2025 |website=G1 |language=pt-br}}

In October 2017, the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF) filed a lawsuit against Marco Antônio for administrative improbity.{{Cite web |last=Calado |first=Nadedja |date=June 26, 2017 |title=MPF pede condenação de Cabral no processo da Operação Calicute {{!}} Rio de Janeiro |url=https://odia.ig.com.br/rio-de-janeiro/2017-07-26/mpf-pede-condenacao-de-cabral-no-processo-da-operacao-calicute.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017041419/https://odia.ig.com.br/rio-de-janeiro/2017-07-26/mpf-pede-condenacao-de-cabral-no-processo-da-operacao-calicute.html |archive-date=October 17, 2021 |access-date=April 8, 2025 |website=O Dia |language=pt-BR}} The prosecutors' request points to irregularities in his visits to his father, former governor Sérgio Cabral, arrested in 2016 in Operation Calicute, an offshoot of Car Wash.{{Cite web |last1=Gomes |first1=Marceo |last2=Abreu |first2=Ricardo |date=October 16, 2017 |title=MPF denuncia deputado Marco Antônio Cabral por visitas irregulares a Sérgio Cabral em Bangu |url=https://g1.globo.com/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/mpf-denuncia-deputado-marco-antonio-cabral-por-visitas-irregulares-a-sergio-cabral-em-bangu.ghtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220307184845/https://g1.globo.com/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/mpf-denuncia-deputado-marco-antonio-cabral-por-visitas-irregulares-a-sergio-cabral-em-bangu.ghtml |archive-date=March 7, 2022 |access-date=April 8, 2025 |website=G1 |language=pt-br}}

In the 2018 elections, he obtained less than 20,000 votes and failed to be re-elected to the position of federal deputy.{{Cite web |last=Borges |first=Laryssa |date=October 8, 2018 |title=O sucesso e o fracasso dos filhos de políticos nas eleições |url=https://veja.abril.com.br/politica/o-sucesso-e-o-fracasso-dos-filhos-de-politicos-nas-eleicoes/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181008172040/https://veja.abril.com.br/politica/o-sucesso-e-o-fracasso-dos-filhos-de-politicos-nas-eleicoes/ |archive-date=October 8, 2018 |access-date=April 8, 2025 |website=Veja |language=pt-BR}} In 2022, he ran for federal deputy and helped organize Claudio Castro's gubernatorial campaign that same year.{{Cite web |last=Barreira |first=Gabriel |date=April 13, 2022 |title=Herdeiros de políticos do RJ compõem a base do governador Cláudio Castro |url=https://g1.globo.com/rj/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/2022/04/13/herdeiros-de-politicos-do-rj-compoem-a-base-do-governador-claudio-castro.ghtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220515015653/https://g1.globo.com/rj/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/2022/04/13/herdeiros-de-politicos-do-rj-compoem-a-base-do-governador-claudio-castro.ghtml |archive-date=May 15, 2022 |access-date=April 8, 2025 |website=G1 |language=pt-br}} He declared his vote for President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.{{Cite web |last=Cabral |first=Marco |date=February 7, 2024 |title=Se passaram 7 anos desde a última vez que vi o Presidente @lulaoficial , mas parece que foi ontem |url=https://www.instagram.com/marcoantoniocabral/p/C3ERFTytaf9/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.ph/UDkH7 |archive-date=April 8, 2025 |access-date=April 8, 2025 |website=Instagram}}{{Cite web |last=Cabral |first=Marco |date=October 31, 2022 |title=Desejo muito sucesso ao novo Presidente do Brasil, Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva @lulaoficial ! Participei de muitas realizações do Governo Lula aqui no Estado do Rio, em parceria com o Governo Cabral, que mudaram a vida das pessoas que mais precisam, como a expansão do Metrô até a Barra, o Arco Metropolitano, a retomada da Indústria Naval, os apartamentos do PAC, muitos condomínios Minha Casa Minha Vida, Escolas Técnicas , a retomada do Complexo do Alemão, entre outras conquistas. Espero que nos próximos 4 anos, ele e o nosso Governador @claudiocastrorj possam fazer uma grande parceria pelo bem do Rio. |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CkYS19vupdN/?img_index=1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.ph/TyUek |archive-date=April 8, 2025 |access-date=April 8, 2025 |website=Instagram}} Once again, he was not elected to office, after receiving more than 20,000 votes.

He is married to Jessica Gargioni, with whom he has two children.{{Cite web |date=March 27, 2018 |title=Sérgio Cabral é o novo vovô do pedaço |url=https://odia.ig.com.br/colunas/leo-dias/2018/03/5525126-sergio-cabral-e-o-novo-vovo-do-pedaco.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517054113/https://odia.ig.com.br/colunas/leo-dias/2018/03/5525126-sergio-cabral-e-o-novo-vovo-do-pedaco.html |archive-date=May 17, 2022 |access-date=April 9, 2025 |website=O Dia |language=pt-BR}}{{Cite web |last=Gois |first=Ancelmo |date=March 23, 2018 |title=Sérgio Cabral virou avô na cadeia |url=https://blogs.oglobo.globo.com/ancelmo/post/sergio-cabral-virou-avo-na-cadeia.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.ph/lpWzf |archive-date=April 9, 2025 |access-date=April 9, 2025 |website=O Globo |language=pt-br}}{{Cite web |date=June 16, 2019 |title=Sérgio Cabral ganha mais um neto {{!}} Radar |url=https://veja.abril.com.br/coluna/radar/sergio-cabral-ganha-mais-um-neto |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250409123415/https://veja.abril.com.br/coluna/radar/sergio-cabral-ganha-mais-um-neto |archive-date=April 9, 2025 |access-date=April 9, 2025 |website=Veja |language=pt-BR}}

{{reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cabral, Marco}}

Category:1991 births

Category:Lawyers from Rio de Janeiro (city)

Category:Politicians from Rio de Janeiro (city)

Category:20th-century Brazilian lawyers

Category:21st-century Brazilian lawyers

Category:Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro alumni

Category:Brazilian Democratic Movement politicians

Category:Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Brazil) from Rio de Janeiro (state)

Category:Year of birth missing (living people)

Category:Living people