Sérgio de Oliveira Cabral Santos Filho is a Brazilian politician and a journalist
He was elected governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro in the 2006 Brazilian general election and sworn into office on January 1, 2007. Cabral Filho was a representative in the Rio de Janeiro state legislature from 1991 to 2002 and its president from 1995 to 2002. In the 2002 general elections, he was elected senator for the state of Rio de Janeiro, a position he occupied from January 2003 until December 2006, when he resigned to run in the Rio de Janeiro gubernatorial elections, having been replaced in Brazilian Senate by Regis Fichtner Velasco.
He ran for mayor of Rio de Janeiro in 1996 on a PSDB Brazilian Social Democratic Party ticket, but his election as governor happened after he switched to the PMDB. He and his running mate, Luiz Fernando de Sousa, won 68% of the valid votes in the second round of voting against the Popular Socialist Party candidate Denise Frossard, who received only 32% of valid votes.