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

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, having served as state representative since 2015.

Personal life

Aro was born to Jose Guilherme Ferreira Filho and Marli Aparecida de Aro. Prior to becoming a politician Aro worked as a journalist.

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. In the 2014 Brazilian general election, Aro was elected to the federal chamber of deputies with . Aro voted in favor of the impeachment motion of then-president

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. Aro would vote against a similar corruption investigation into Rousseff's successor

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, and he voted in favor of the

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. In January 2018 Aro became the president of the Humanist Party of Solidarity. After the

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however the Humanist party failed to win enough seats to secure funding, and subsequently merged with the Podemos party. In January of the following year Aro joined the Progressive party. He ran for senator in

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, but was beaten by Cleitinho Azevedo.

References

1987 births Living people People from Belo Horizonte Brazilian journalists Humanist Party of Solidarity politicians Progressistas politicians Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Brazil) from Minas Gerais {{Brazil-politician-stub