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Laura Carneiro

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Laura Carneiro
Federal deputy of Rio de Janeiro
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 February 2023
In office
27 October 2015 – 1 February 2019
In office
1 February 1995 – 1 February 2007
Councilwoman of Rio de Janeiro
In office
1 January 2021 – 1 January 2023
In office
1 January 2013 – 27 October 2015
In office
1 January 1989 – 1 February 1995
Personal details
Born
Maria Laura Monteza de Souza Carneiro

(1961-05-01) 1 May 1961 (age 63)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Political partyPSD (2022–present)
Other political
affiliations
See list
  • PSDB (1988–1990)
  • PMDB (1990–1993)
  • PP (1993–1995)
  • PPB (1995)
  • PFL (1995–2007)
  • DEM (2007–2009)
  • PTB (2009–2015)
  • MDB (2015–2018)
  • DEM (2018–2022)
  • UNIÃO (2022)
  • PL (2022)
Parent
RelativesEdison Carneiro (uncle)
Alma materRio de Janeiro State University

Maria Laura Monteza de Souza Carneiro (born 1 May 1963) is a Brazilian lawyer and politician. She has been a councilwoman in the city of Rio de Janeiro, as well as a federal deputy for the state of Rio de Janeiro, in on and off terms since the 1980s. She started her current term as federal deputy in 2023.[1]

Biography

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Carneiro began her career becoming a parliamentary advisor for Ulysses Guimarães, the then president of the Brazilian Constituent Assembly of 1988.[2] A year after, in 1989, she was elected to her first mandate as city councilwoman of Rio de Janeiro, at 25 years old. Since then, she has been elected councilwoman two other times and has had three other consecutive mandates in the Chamber of Deputies.

She is the daughter of Nelson Carneiro, former senator and ex-president of the National Congress, and his wife, Maria Luísa Monteza de Souza Carneiro, who was of Peruvian origin. He was the author of the first amendment that instituted a parliamentary system in Brazil, after having been jailed by the military dictatorship. He also wrote the country's divorce laws, after 30 years fighting for such provisions.[3] Her uncle was writer and ethnologist on Afro-Brazilian culture Edison Carneiro.[4][5] Laura graduated with a law degree from Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ) in 1985.[6]

Parliamentary career

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Carneiro was the Municipal Secretary of Social Development before she was 30. She was the co-author of proposals related to Statutes relating to the elderly. She has presented more than a thousand propositions since her first mandate as councilwoman in 1989, mainly relating to combatting violence against women, having also firmly making efforts behind the scenes in Congress to approve the Maria da Penha law.[7]

In 2017 and 2018, she was the vice-president of the Commission for the Defense of Women's Rights, vice-president of the Joint Budget Commission, and was the vice-leader of the MDB in the Chamber of Deputies, but was removed from her position for having voted in favor of an investigation into corruption allegations against then-president Michel Temer.[8]

Carneiro is the lone politician in Brazil to have had 6 laws sanctioned in less than two years. This includes Law 13.413/17, creating comprehensive legislation to protect the rights of children and adolescent victims and witnesses of violence.[6]

While on the commission on the Defense of the Rights of Women, she helped to increase the penalties for collective and punitive rape, as well as other forms of rape that were not already determined in the Brazilian Penal Code. She helped to codify the crime of releasing media showing rape. She created the criminal offense of sexual importuning and passed laws that stripped men who killed their wives, beat their children, or committed sexual abuse of their rights within the family. She is also the author of laws that authorized the commercialization of anorectics to treat obesity, as well as the law that disposed of the national energy policy that had brought $3 billion reais to the state of Rio de Janeiro annually.[6]

Carneiro was also able to approve laws that banned child marriage in Brazil, as well as laws regulating the release by telephone services about cases related to violence against women, in relation to Poder Público that had intensively advertised of Disque 180 in public and private in great circulation.[6]

Laura Carneiro Mesa Diretora da Câmara Dia Internacional da Mulher
Laura Carneiro overseeing the Managing Table of the Chamber during a "Sessão Solene" to commemorate International Woman's Day

Carneiro would later introduce bills that includes as civil identifications for gender male, female, or undetermined, as prescribed by the Brazilian Constitution in reference to the dignity of citizens relating to gender expression, along with promoting a series for public audiences on the subject. From October 2015 to November 2016, she became a member of five permanent commissions in the Chamber, most notably the commission on Women's Rights.[6] She had become most well known on the commission for their analysis of PEC 134/15, which reserves a minimum percent for female representation in the Legislative branch.[9] She would eventually become a member of more than 10 special commissions, highlighting to put forth resources for the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro that year, as well as her coordinating the attempt to resolve the fiscal crisis hitting the state of Rio de Janeiro.[6]

She would later become the rapporteur of the Federal Intervention in Rio de Janeiro, as well as vice-president of the Joint Budgeting Commission. During her latest term, she introduced more than 100 proposals and two Constitutional Amendments.[6] Carneiro also became a member of the Brazilian delegation to the Latin American Parliament, an organization that unites national parliaments in Latin America that are elected democratically by popular vote, of which she served as president.[10] She also was a substitute member for the 8 January CPMI.[11]

In 2023, she was recognized by the Order of Attorneys of Brazil for her work in advocating for the rights of women in Brazil.[12]

Electoral history

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Year Election Coalition Party Position Vote Result
1988 Rio de Janeiro Municipal Elections
Rio, Amanhã Melhor

(PSDB, PCdoB)
 PSDB
Councilwoman
 7,837 Won
1992 Rio de Janeiro Municipal Elections
Pensa Rio

(PMDB, PMSD, PL)
 PMDB 12,214 (0.44%) Won
1994 Rio de Janeiro State Elections
Rio Unido

(PSDB, PFL, PP, PL)
 PP
Federal deputy
 34,932 (0.77%) Won[13]
1998 Rio de Janeiro State Elections
Governo de Verdade

(PFL, PPB, PTB)
 PFL 83,124 (1.17%) Won[14]
2002 Rio de Janeiro State Elections
Todos pelo Rio

(PFL, PMDB, PSDB)
 62,472 (0.85%) Won[15]
2006 Rio de Janeiro State Elections
no coalition
 29,495 (0.40%) Lost (substitute)[16]
2010 Rio de Janeiro State Elections
PTB, PTN, PSDC, PHS, PTC
 PTB 29,354 (0.37%) Lost (substitute)[17]
2012 Rio de Janeiro Municipal Elections
no coalition
Councilwoman
 14,621 (0.47%) Won[18]
2014 Rio de Janeiro State Elections
PMDB, PP, PSC, PSD, PTB
Federal deputy
 34,550 (0.49%) Lost (substitute)[19]
2018 Rio de Janeiro State Elections
O Rio quer paz

(DEM, MDB, PP, PTB)
 DEM 40,212 (0.57%) Lost (substitute)[20]
2020 Rio de Janeiro Municipal Elections
no coalition
Councilwoman
 14,646 (0.60%) Won[21]
2022 Rio de Janeiro State Elections
no coalition
 PSD
Federal deputy
 48,073 (0.58%) Won[22]

References

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  1. ^ "Laura Carneiro". Poder360. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  2. ^ "Palavra Aberta - Especial 200 anos do Parlamento: Laura Carneiro". Chamber of Deputies of Brazil. 4 August 2023. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  3. ^ "Grandes Momentos do Parlamento Brasileiro". Federal Senate of Brazil. 23 March 1998. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  4. ^ Tadeu Arantes, José (7 October 2016). "Edison Carneiro: o Ogã comunista". Agência FAPESP. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  5. ^ Capone, Stefania. "Carneiro, Édison". Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g "Biografia do(a) Deputado(a) Federal Laura Carneiro". Portal da Câmara dos Deputados (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  7. ^ "História em quadrinhos sobre Lei Maria da Penha é lançada na Câmara". Secretaria Nacional de Mulheres do PSB. 17 October 2024. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  8. ^ "Como votou cada deputado sobre a denúncia contra Temer". Carta Capital. Deutsche Welle. 3 August 2017. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  9. ^ "PEC 134/2015". Chamber of Deputies of Brazil. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  10. ^ "Inaugural Sitting" (PDF). EURO-LATIN AMERICAN PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  11. ^ "Composição da CPMI - 8 de Janeiro". Federal Senate of Brazil. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  12. ^ "Deputada Laura Carneiro é homenageada por atuação no PL que transforma assédio em infração". OAB Nacional. 22 May 2023. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  13. ^ "Resultados das Eleições 1994 - Rio de Janeiro - deputado federal". Tribunal Superior Eleitoral - TSE. Archived from the original on 2022-01-27. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  14. ^ "Poder 360 | LAURA CARNEIRO". Poder 360. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  15. ^ "Poder 360 | LAURA CARNEIRO". Poder 360. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  16. ^ "Poder 360 | LAURA CARNEIRO". Poder 360. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  17. ^ "Apuração dos votos: Rio de Janeiro - Eleições 2010 - Terra". eleicoes.terra.com.br (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  18. ^ "Apuração das Eleições 2012 em Rio de Janeiro | Rio de Janeiro | G1". g1.globo.com (in Portuguese). Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  19. ^ "Poder 360 | LAURA CARNEIRO". Poder 360. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  20. ^ "Poder 360 | LAURA CARNEIRO". Poder 360. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  21. ^ "Poder 360 | LAURA CARNEIRO". Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  22. ^ "Poder 360 | LAURA CARNEIRO". Poder 360. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
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