Pernambuco Deputy Waldemar Borges Dies at 67

Overview

• Family members signed an official note confirming that Waldemar Borges died of cancer on Saturday, July 4, and described his nearly 40-year public career as a guiding legacy for his family and supporters.
• The state government decreed three days of official mourning and arranged a wake on Sunday at the Assembleia Legislativa de Pernambuco followed by burial at Cemitério Morada da Paz in Paulista.
• Borges served multiple terms as a Recife councillor and for 16 years in the state assembly, and held executive posts in the administrations of Miguel Arraes and Eduardo Campos, shaping a long record of local and state public service.
• He had been on medical leave for cancer treatment and his substitute, Cayo Albino (PSB), had been exercising the Alepe mandate since June, which the coverage says should limit immediate disruption to legislative work.
• Political leaders across the spectrum, including President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Pernambuco officials, issued public condolences and highlighted the personal impact on his wife, Minister Luciana Santos, and their children.