The July 2016 President of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil election took place on 13 July 2016, during the 55th Legislature of the National Congress. The unusual intra-term election for President of the Chamber of Deputies was necessitated by the impending resignation of Eduardo Cunha from the presidency, on 7 July 2016, after his suspension by the Supreme Federal Court (STF). Cunha was the first president to resign in the middle of a Congressional term since Severino Cavalcanti in 2005.