Dâmina Pereira
Dâmina Pereira | |
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.jpg) Pereira in August 2015 | |
| Federal Deputy from Minas Gerais | |
| In office 1 February 2015 – 31 January 2019 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 December 1952 Lavras, MG, Brazil |
| Political party | PODE (2018–) PSL (2016–2018) PMB (2015–2016) PMN (2014–2015) |
Dâmina de Carvalho Pereira (born 2 December 1952) is a Brazilian politician and businesswoman. She has spent her political career representing Minas Gerais, having served as federal deputy representative from 2015 to 2019.[1]
Personal life
[edit]Pereira was born to Joao Pereira de Carvalho and Waldette Rodrigues de Carvalho.[1] Before becoming a politician Pereira worked as a businesswoman.[2]
Political career
[edit]Pereira voted in favor of the impeachment of then-president Dilma Rousseff.[3] She voted in favor of 2015 tax reforms but against the 2017 Brazilian labor reform,[4] and would vote against the opening of a corruption investigation into Rousseff's successor Michel Temer.[5]
Pereira is the first woman to be elected to the chamber of deputies from the municipality of Lavras.[6] Originally elected as a member of the Party of National Mobilization, Pereira joined the Party of the Brazilian Woman in 2015, then the Social Liberal Party the following year. In 2018 she joined Podemos.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "DÂMINA PEREIRA – Biografia". Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 22 July 2019.
- ^ "Pastor e Deputado acusado e afastado da Assembléia de Deus" (in Portuguese). 15 April 2011. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
- ^ "Reforma trabalhista: como votaram os deputados" (in Portuguese). Carta Capital. 27 April 2017. Archived from the original on 9 April 2012. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
- ^ "Veja como deputados votaram no impeachment de Dilma, na PEC 241, na reforma trabalhista e na denúncia contra Temer" [See how deputies voted in the impeachment of Dilma, in PEC 241, in the labor reform and in the denunciation against Temer]. G1 Globo (in Portuguese). 2 August 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
- ^ "Como votou cada deputado sobre a denúncia contra Temer" (in Portuguese). Carta Capital. 4 August 2017. Archived from the original on 9 April 2012. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
- ^ "A primeira deputada federal de Lavras, Dâmina de Carvalho Pereira, fala dos seus planos de governo" (in Portuguese). Lavras 24 horas. Archived from the original on 17 September 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
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