Alex Canziani

Alex Canziani Silveira (born 11 June 1964) is a Brazilian politician as well as a lawyer and writer. He has spent his political career representing Paraná, having served in the state legislature from 1999 to 2019.^[1]

Alex Canziani
Canziani in September 2017
Federal Deputy for Paraná
In office 1 February 1999 – 31 January 2019
Federal Deputy for Londrina
In office 1 January 1989 – 31 December 1995
Personal details
Born	(1964-06-11) 11 June 1964 (age 61) Londrina, Brazil
Political party	PSD

Personal life

Canziani is married to Ana Lúcia dos Santos Silveira, and has two children, a daughter named Luísa and a son Alex Jr. His daughter Luísa is also a politician, being elected to the lower legislature in 2018.^[2] Canziani is an alumnus of the State University of Londrina, and also briefly served as part of the university faculty in from 1990 to 1991.^[1]

Political career

Canziani voted in favor of the impeachment motion of then-president Dilma Rousseff.^[3] He voted in favor raising the spending ceiling of Brazil's government and the 2017 Brazilian labor reforms.^[4] Canziani voted against opening a similar corruption investigation into Rousseff's successor Michel Temer.^[5]

After serving in the federal chamber of deputies for 5 consecutive terms, he was succeeded by his daughter in 2019.^[2]