Eronildes Vasconcelos Carvalho (born 2 June 1972) more commonly known as Tia Eron is a Brazilian politician. She has spent her political career representing

Bahia Bahia () is one of the 26 Federative units of Brazil, states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast Region of the country. It is the fourth-largest Brazilian state by population (after São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Mina ...

, having served as state representative from 2015 to 2017.

Personal life

She is the daughter of José Alexandrino Vasconcelos and Eronilia França Lima. She is a member of the

Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG; ; , IURD) is an international Evangelical Neo-charismatic Christian denomination with its headquarters at the Temple of Solomon in São Paulo, Brazil. The church was founded in 1977 in Rio de Jan ...

, and while working in elementary schools run by the church is where her nickname "Tia Eron" of "Aunt Eron" originated, given to her by the students.

Political career

Before being elected to the federal chamber of deputies, Tia Eron served as a vereador in her hometown of Salvador for more than a decade, from 2001 to 2015. In the 2014 election Tia Eron was elected from the state of Bahia with 116,912 being one of the most voted deputies in her state. She is also the first

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woman elected to the chamber of deputies from Bahia. Tia Eron voted in favor of the impeachment of then-president

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. She would provide the decisive vote for a corruption investigation into

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which would result in his eventual removal from office. In January 2017 Tia Eron left her position as federal deputy after being appointed secretary of social promotion to combat poverty by mayor of Salvador

Antônio Carlos Magalhães Neto Antônio Carlos Peixoto de Magalhães Neto, commonly known as ACM Neto, (born 26 January 1979 in Salvador) is a Brazilian lawyer and politician. He was the national president of the Democrats (DEM), and is currently general secretary of the Bra ...

References

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