Departures of note

Edgar Moury Fernandes was a Brazilian lawyer and politician from Pernambuco with more than four decades in public life. Trained in law at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), he served four terms as a state deputy in the Legislative Assembly of Pernambuco (Alepe), between 1967 and 1979 and from 1983 to 1987, and at times acted as president in office of the assembly.

Decades later he returned to elected office as a federal deputy for Pernambuco from 2007 to 2011, sitting on the Chamber's committees on Labour, Administration and Public Service, Education and Culture, and Finance and Taxation. He also held executive posts, including chief of staff (secretário-chefe da Casa Civil) under Governor Jarbas Vasconcelos, secretary of Administration of Pernambuco (1987-1988), extraordinary secretary of the Recife city government (1993-1997), and state secretary for Special Projects (1999-2006).

He was remembered by state leaders as a defender of democracy and a close political partner of Jarbas Vasconcelos in the fight for Brazil's redemocratization. He died on 30 September 2026 at age 82 after treatment for cancer.