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Félix Braz
Second Deputy Prime Minister of Luxembourg
In office 5 December 2018 – 11 October 2019 Serving with Etienne Schneider
Prime Minister	Xavier Bettel
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	François Bausch
Minister for Justice
In office 4 December 2013 – 11 October 2019
Prime Minister	Xavier Bettel
Preceded by	Octavie Modert
Succeeded by	Sam Tanson
Personal details
Born	(1966-03-16) 16 March 1966 (age 58) Differdange, Luxembourg
Citizenship	Portugal Luxembourg [1]
Political party	Greens

Félix Braz (born 16 March 1966)^[2] is a Luxembourgish politician who served as Second Deputy Prime Minister of Luxembourg from 2018 to 2019. A member of the Greens, Braz also served as Minister of Justice in the Bettel-Schneider coalition government. In October 2019, he resigned as Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice because of health issues.^[3][4]

Biographyedit

Braz, son of Portuguese immigrants living in Luxembourg since 1960, was born in Differdange in 1966.^[2] He became a Luxembourg citizen when he completed 18 years old, in 1984.^[5] After secondary school, he started studying law at Panthéon-Sorbonne University, but broke off his studies after one year.^[2]

In 1990 he worked as chief editor and presenter of a news broadcast in Portuguese on RTL Radio Lëtzebuerg.^[2]

From 1991 he was the parliamentary secretary for the Greens.^[2] He was also a communal councillor in Esch-sur-Alzette from 1995 to 2000, and an alderman (échevin) from 2000 to 2011.^[2]

He was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 2004 for the Sud constituency, and was re-elected in 2009 and 2013.^[2] In the Chamber, he was vice-chairman of the Committee for Transport from 2004 to 2009.^[2] After the October 2013 elections, he became chairman of the Greens' parliamentary group.^[2] He joined the new coalition government as Minister for Justice on 4 December 2013.^[2]

Honoursedit

•  Portugal: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit (23 May 2017)

Referencesedit

External linksedit

• Media related to Félix Braz at Wikimedia Commons

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