State deputy (2015-2019) In the 2014 state elections, he was the best-voted state deputy in Alagoas, with 60,759 votes. He was President of the Information Science and Technology Committee, vice-president of the Administration Committee and member of the Human Rights and Public Security Committee and the Transport, Communication, Services and Public Works Committee.
Senator (2019-present) Cunha has served as senator since 2019.
2018 Alagoas state elections In the 2018 state elections, he was elected senator for Alagoas, obtaining 895,738 votes, which corresponds to 34.42% of valid votes. Thus being the most voted Senator in his state. Despite being elected as a member of the
PSDB, he ran an independent campaign. At the beginning of the electoral race, he demonstrated dissatisfaction with the coalition made by his party with former president
Fernando Collor for the dispute for state government and continued campaigning without associating his image with the party's majority ticket. In February 2021, he was elected president of the Science, Technology, Innovation, Communication and IT Committee of the Federal Senate of Brazil for the 2021-2022 biennium. Cunha joined the
Brazil Union in 2022, before joining
Podemos in 2023.
2022 Alagoas gubernatorial election In the 2022 elections, Rodrigo Cunha ran for state government, with state deputy Jó Pereira as his vice candidate. He went to the second round against the government candidate,
Paulo Dantas. Although political names from the state who supported his candidacy, such as the mayor of
Maceió,
João Henrique Caldas and the
president of the Chamber of Deputies,
Arthur Lira, supported
Jair Bolsonaro as a candidate for re-election to the presidency, Cunha did not publicly support any candidate, remaining in neutrality. == Personal life ==