Heloísa Helena (politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Brazilian politician
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Place of Birth: Alagoas, Brazil
About Heloísa Helena (politician)
- Heloísa Helena Lima de Moraes Carvalho (Portuguese pronunciation: [elo'iz? e'len? 'lim? di mo'?ajs ka?'va?u]; born 6 June 1962 in Pão de Açúcar, Alagoas) is a Brazilian nurse, schoolteacher, and politician, member of the political party Rede Sustentabilidade.
- She is the Brazilian woman to have received the third highest voting in a presidential race, ranking behind Marina Silva and Dilma Rousseff in 2010.In 1998, she was elected Senator for Alagoas, having attained the highest vote count in that election.
- Then a member of the Workers' Party, she disagreed with certain policies that she deemed excessively conservative.
- Thus, in 2003 she voted against the overhaul of public servants' pensions carried out in the first term of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and, as a result, was expelled from the party.
- The following year, she was one of the founding members of the Socialism and Liberty Party.
- In 2013, she helped found the Rede Sustentabilidade Party, and has been a member thereof since then.
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