Christiane Yared

Christiane Yared
Yared in 2016
Federal Deputy for Paraná
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 February 2015
Personal details
Born (1960-02-23) 23 February 1960 (age 64)
Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Political partyPL
ProfessionPastor, professor, businesswoman

Christiane de Souza Yared (born 23 February 1960) is a Brazilian politician. She has spent her political career representing Paraná, having served as state representative since 2015.[1]

Personal life

Yared is the daughter of Althair Costa Souza and Sulamite Souza.[1] She is married to Gilmar Yared (now divorced) and has three children. One of her sons was killed in a car crash in May 2009.[2] As a result of her son's death, Yared has campaigned for traffic safety.[3]

Verde has also worked as a professor, businesswoman,[1] and an evangelical pastor[4] of the Pentecostal church Catedral do Reino de Deus in Curitiba, along with her mother who is also a pastor at the church.[3]

Political career

Yared was elected to the federal senate of deputies in the 2014 election receiving 200,144 votes and being in the top five most voted candidates from the state of Paraná.[5]

Yared voted in favor of the impeachment of then-president Dilma Rousseff.[6] Yared voted against the 2017 Brazilian labor reform,[7] and would vote in favor of a corruption investigation into Rousseff's successor Michel Temer.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c "CHRISTIANE DE SOUZA YARED – Biografia". Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  2. ^ Bolognese, Ruth (24 July 2018). "As palavras esperadas de Christiane Yared" (in Portuguese). Contraponto. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  3. ^ a b Fernandes, José Carlos (19 December 2009). "O ano em que Cristiane Yared foi às ruas" (in Portuguese). Gazeta do Povo. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  4. ^ Resende, Narley (8 May 2018). "'Nem de esquerda, nem direita', diz Christiane Yared, de olho no Senado" (in Portuguese). Bem Paraná. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  5. ^ "Christiane Yared 1900 - (Posição) 1º - (Votos)" (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 10 January 2019. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ "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 11 March 2019.
  8. ^ "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.