Marcelo Aro

Marcelo Aro
Aro in 2019
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 1 February 2015 – 1 February 2023
Constituency	Minas Gerais
Personal details
Born	Marcelo Guilherme de Aro Ferreira (1987-06-12) 12 June 1987 (age 37) Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais,[1] Brazil
Political party	PP (since 2019)
Other political affiliations	PHS (2010–2018)
Occupation	Journalist, 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. "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.