Marcelo Aro | |
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![]() Aro in 2019 | |
Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
In office 1 February 2015 – 1 February 2023 | |
Constituency | Minas Gerais |
Personal details | |
Born | Marcelo Guilherme de Aro Ferreira 12 June 1987 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, [1] Brazil |
Political party | PP (since 2019) |
Other political affiliations | PHS (2010–2018) |
Occupation | Journalist, lawyer |
Marcelo Guilherme de Aro Ferreira (born 12 June 1987) better known as simply Marcelo Aro is a Brazilian politician and journalist. He has spent his political career representing Minas Gerais, having served as state representative since 2015. [1]
Aro was born to Jose Guilherme Ferreira Filho and Marli Aparecida de Aro. [1] Prior to becoming a politician Aro worked as a journalist. [1]
At the age of just 25, Aro was voted into the city council of his home city with 9,412 in the 2012 local election. [2] In the 2014 Brazilian general election, Aro was elected to the federal chamber of deputies with . [3]
Aro voted in favor of the impeachment motion of then-president Dilma Rousseff. [4] Aro would vote against a similar corruption investigation into Rousseff's successor Michel Temer, [5] and he voted in favor of the 2017 Brazilian labor reforms. [6]
In January 2018 Aro became the president of the Humanist Party of Solidarity. [7] After the 2018 Brazilian general election however the Humanist party failed to win enough seats to secure funding, and subsequently merged with the Podemos party. [8] In January of the following year Aro joined the Progressive party. [1] He ran for senator in 2022, but was beaten by Cleitinho Azevedo.
Marcelo Aro | |
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![]() Aro in 2019 | |
Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
In office 1 February 2015 – 1 February 2023 | |
Constituency | Minas Gerais |
Personal details | |
Born | Marcelo Guilherme de Aro Ferreira 12 June 1987 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, [1] Brazil |
Political party | PP (since 2019) |
Other political affiliations | PHS (2010–2018) |
Occupation | Journalist, lawyer |
Marcelo Guilherme de Aro Ferreira (born 12 June 1987) better known as simply Marcelo Aro is a Brazilian politician and journalist. He has spent his political career representing Minas Gerais, having served as state representative since 2015. [1]
Aro was born to Jose Guilherme Ferreira Filho and Marli Aparecida de Aro. [1] Prior to becoming a politician Aro worked as a journalist. [1]
At the age of just 25, Aro was voted into the city council of his home city with 9,412 in the 2012 local election. [2] In the 2014 Brazilian general election, Aro was elected to the federal chamber of deputies with . [3]
Aro voted in favor of the impeachment motion of then-president Dilma Rousseff. [4] Aro would vote against a similar corruption investigation into Rousseff's successor Michel Temer, [5] and he voted in favor of the 2017 Brazilian labor reforms. [6]
In January 2018 Aro became the president of the Humanist Party of Solidarity. [7] After the 2018 Brazilian general election however the Humanist party failed to win enough seats to secure funding, and subsequently merged with the Podemos party. [8] In January of the following year Aro joined the Progressive party. [1] He ran for senator in 2022, but was beaten by Cleitinho Azevedo.