In one of the numerous clashes of the former mayor of Nova Friburgo (RJ) Saudade Braga () with councilors, his son, decided to record the requests made by the opponents who made his mother’s mandate difficult.
The public exhibition of rivals generated investigation and buzz in the city and shows, to Fábio Gripp, advisor to, how Glauber acts in confrontation situations, exposing what he considers errors of opponents.
In recent years, Glauber has gained projection by making public clashes with (), (MDB) and (). The style became a uncomfortable reason, where it faces cassation process by (Free Brazil Movement).
Last Thursday (17), Glauber that lasted eight days against the opening of the cassation process. The decision was made after the mayor, Hugo Motta (Republicans-PB) ,.
The confrontations marked the nationalization of the deputy’s political profile, previously most linked to its origin in the Rio de Janeiro region.
Son of a couple of brizolist doctors, Glauber was accompanying his mother in the city in his youth. As soon as he was elected mayor, in 2000, Saudade appointed his son at the age of 18 as an advisor in a city subprefecture.
“He watched the political articulation and lived the brizolism at home. It was a leadership that emerged domestically, but as soon as the government began, he provided this statement working in the neighborhoods,” said Gripp, who accompanies him from the first steps in politics.
Glauber’s first candidacy for the House, by the PSB in 2006, was during his mother’s term. It attracted almost 40% of the city’s votes, but the 51,000 received it left it. He in 2009, after the appointment of former Deputy Jorge Bittar (PT) to a secretary in Rio de Janeiro.
As soon as he arrived at Congress, he commented on the trajectory linked to his mother and the positions in City Hall, where he was secretary of government between 2007 and 2008. The practice of nepotism was prohibited by the (Supreme Court) in August 2008, after Glauber’s nominations, but was always criticized by the left.
“If you consider that nepotism is to employ a relative, it was a case. But if the definition is going to work to people who are unable to perform the task, it is not nepotism. I am not in favor of taking the possibility of people with a vocation to do these tasks,” O Globo newspaper in 2009.
He was reelected in 2010, still with a vote concentrated in Nova Friburgo, and focused his second term in after the 2011 climate disaster. He was one of those who had the house destroyed in the tragedy that killed more than a thousand people.
In the second term, he began to climb positions inside the PSB. It was one of the craftsmen of. He accused the then regional president, Alexandre Cardoso, from Sérgio Cabral, for nominating names for affiliation instead of the association itself.
“Glauber has always been very impulsive,” said Cardoso.
The deputy took command of the party alongside the then deputy Romário. He acted in the campaign of Eduardo Campos to the presidency and coordinated the landing of Cabral management. Glauber was reelected in 2014 with his largest vote ever registered (82,000 votes). In Nova Friburgo, he had over 60% of the votes.
The following year, he broke with Romário and the PSB. He stayed in the acronym until September 2015, when due to the adhesion of the former party to the impeachment of former President Dilma Rousseff.
In this period, it gained notoriety to the chamber. During the impeachment vote in 2016, he called him.
The year 2016 marked the turn on Glauber’s political profile. With national visibility, the deputy unsuccessfully tried the City of Nova Friburgo.
“The trip to PSOL did not reverberate well in the interior, where the party entrance is still very difficult,” says Gripp.
In 2018, his electoral map gave the first signs of change. One third of the 40,000 votes (half of the previous election) came from the state capital, surpassing the 10,000 registered in Nova Friburgo (10% of the city).
During Jair Bolsonaro (PL) management, he maintained the verve against Senator Sergio Moro, to whom for his acting as a magistrate in Operation Lava Jato.
In 2022 ,. He defended his own candidacy for the presidency and made himself available for the dispute. Defeated in the acronym, it almost doubled the votes to the House (78 thousand), having almost half of its vote in the capital of Rio de Janeiro. He kept the level of 10% of the previous election in Nova Friburgo.
It was at the end of the past legislature that had the main clash with Lira. The former mayor after a crash over. Since then, the two have seen each other as rivals.
PSOL’s deputy, by attributing to him the advance of his claim, which the former mayor denies.
Glauber’s personal life in the period also suffered stuff. Married to Mrs Samia Bomfim (PSOL-SP), his brother-in-law was killed at a Barra kiosk when he was confused with a militia in 2023. Alzheimer’s disease that affected his mother worsened until his death in May 2024.
A month before his mother’s death, Glauber assaulted Gabriel Costenaro, MBL militant, after hearing from him that I miss it. Advisors of the deputy say that Youtuber has been chasing him for months in river agendas and attribute kicks and pushing to the offense to the former mayor, in serious condition of the disease.
In this legislature, Glauber also saw growing son Hugo. The name was, by his father, a tribute to Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan dictator killed in 2013. From his mother, Sâmia Bomfim, a reference to Hugo Moreno, known as Nahuel Moreno, Argentine revolutionary.
