Early years and education Son of a traditional family with ties to
Paraíba politics, Hugo was born in
João Pessoa, the state capital. His paternal grandfather, Nabor Wanderley da Nóbrega, was mayor of the municipality of
Patos, in the interior of Paraíba, between 1956 and 1959. His maternal grandfather, , was a state deputy of Paraíba five times and served two terms as a federal deputy. His maternal grandmother,
Francisca Motta, was a state deputy of Paraíba for six terms, as well as being elected mayor of Patos in the 2012 election. His father, , was mayor of Patos for two consecutive terms, holding the position from 2005 to 2012. He was elected to the state legislature in 2014. He returned to the position of mayor of Patos after being elected for a new term in 2020, being re-elected in 2024. He began his studies in
medicine at the Nova Esperança Faculty of Medicine in João Pessoa in 2007. When he moved to
Brasília in 2011, he transferred the course to the
Catholic University of Brasília (UCB), where he graduated in 2013. In 2014, he was re-elected federal deputy for Paraíba. Close to
Eduardo Cunha, he was part of the 'Cunha shock troops', which included the deputies closest to the then president of the Chamber of Deputies. He voted in favor of the admissibility of
Dilma Rousseff's impeachment process. In 2015, Motta was chosen president of the
parliamentary inquiry committee . In April 2017, he was in favor of the
Labor Reform. In the new party, he was elected to office for the third time. In 2022, he was re-elected for a fourth term, achieving the highest vote in the state. He was chosen by
Arthur Lira to be the candidate to succeed him as
2025 President of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil election. On February 1, 2025, he was elected president of the Chamber of Deputies after receiving 444 votes out of 513. At the age of 35, he was the youngest deputy to be elected president in the history of the Chamber.
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