Bahia State Deputy and Physician Alan Sanches Dies at 58

Overview

• Sanches suffered cardiac arrest at home in Salvador; emergency services were called but he did not survive.
• Luciano Ribeiro, União Brasil’s first alternate and a former mayor of Caculé, is expected to take the Assembly seat.
• Governor Jerônimo Rodrigues, ALBA president Ivana Bastos, and leaders from across parties publicly mourned the lawmaker.
• A four-term state deputy and former Salvador City Council president, Sanches also practiced as an orthopedist and maintained a clinic in São Cristóvão.
• Funeral details are pending, and the Salvador City Council decreed three days of official mourning as his son, councilor Duda Sanches, shared a public tribute.