Marcelo Aro

Marcelo Aro
Aro in 2019
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
1 February 2015 – 1 February 2023
ConstituencyMinas Gerais
Personal details
Born
Marcelo Guilherme de Aro Ferreira

(1987-06-12) 12 June 1987 (age 37)
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais,[1] Brazil
Political partyPP (since 2019)
Other political
affiliations		PHS (2010–2018)
OccupationJournalist, 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]

Personal life

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]

Political career

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.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "MARCELO ARO – Biografia". Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  2. ^ "Marcelo Aro abre mão de receber verba indenizatória" (in Portuguese). O Tempo. 18 September 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  3. ^ "Marcelo Aro 3133" (in Portuguese). Eleições 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "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] (in Portuguese). O Globo. 2 August 2017. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ "Marcelo Aro assume presidência do PHS após afastamento de Eduardo Machado" (in Portuguese). Correio Braziliense. 31 January 2018. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  8. ^ Dantas, Dimitrius (21 December 2018). "Podemos incorpora PHS e vira terceira maior bancada do Senado" (in Portuguese). O Globo. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
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