Clarissa Garotinho

Clarissa Barros Assed Matheus de Oliveira (born 2 July 1982) more commonly known as Clarissa Garotinho is a Brazilian politician and journalist. She has spent her political career representing Rio de Janeiro, having served as state representative since 2015.[1]

Clarissa Garotinho
Garotinho in December 2008
Federal Deputy for Rio de Janeiro
Assumed office
1 February 2015
Secretary for Development, Employment and Innovation for Rio de Janeiro
In office
1 January 2017 – 12 April 2018
State Deputy of Rio de Janeiro
In office
1 February 2011 – 31 January 2015
Alderwoman of Rio de Janeiro
In office
1 February 2009 – 31 January 2011
Personal details
Born (1982-07-02) 2 July 1982
Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, Brazil
Political partyPRP (2016-2018)
PL (2009-2016)
MDB (2003-2009)
PSB (2001-2003)
PDT (1999-2000)
Other political
affiliations		PROS (2018-present)

Personal life

She is the daughter of Anthony Garotinho and Rosinha Garotinho.[1] Garotinho comes from a political family, with both her parents serving as governors of the state of Rio de Janeiro. She is one of Anthony and Rosinha's nine children, with three being biological and five being adopted by her parents. In her youth she studied journalism at the Faculdades Integradas Hélio Alonso. As with the rest of her family Garotinho is a devout Presbyterian and a member of the Evangelical Caucus.[2]

In January 2016 Garotinho announced that she was engaged to businessman Marcos Altive, and that the couple was expecting their first child.[3]

Political career

In 2009 due to controversy surrounding alleged partisan infidelity, Garotinho left the Brazilian Democratic Movement and joined the Party of the Republic. She was later acquitted of the charges, with her new party claiming that she was being "discriminated against" by the Brazilian Democratic Movement.[4] That same year Garotinho was elected to the city council of Rio de Janeiro.[1]

In 2012 the Garotinho and Maia political families joined to form what was considered by the Brazilian media an unexpected alliance to defeat the then-mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes, who was running for reelection. The coalition between the two families and the PR/DEM parties was headed by Rodrigo Maia, son of former Rio mayor Cesar Maia, and had Clarissa as his vice mayoral candidate.[5] This was considered controversial as Cesar Maia and Anthony Garotinho had been political rivals.[6] However, the campaign was a failure as Eduardo Paes was comfortably reelected with more than 2 million votes or 64% of the balot, while Maia and Garotinho obtained only 95,328 votes (3% of the balot).[7]

In the 2014 Brazilian general election Garotinho was elected to the Federal Chamber of Deputies, receiving 335,061.[8]

Garotinho did not vote in the impeachment of then-president Dilma Rousseff,[9] as she said she was unable to make it due to her pregnancy.[10] Because of the way absentee balots were counted, Garotinho's absence actually counted as a vote in favor of Rousseff.[11] This was considered ironic as Garotinho's party and her own parents had been advocating for Rousseff's impeachment.[12]

Garotinho voted against the 2016 and 2017 tax reforms.[13]

In November 2016 Garotinho was once again expelled from a political party for partisan infidelity,[14] as she was released from the Party of the Republic for collaborating with politicians from a rival faction in the legislature.[15] She subsequently joined the Brazilian Republican Party or PRB on the invitation of Marcelo Crivella.[16] Two years later Garotinho as well as her mother Rosinha were expelled from the PRB due to being investigated for corruption.[17] Garotinho was still reelected in the 2018 Brazilian general election.[1]

In February 2019 Garotinho announced that she would be running in the 2020 Rio de Janeiro mayoral election.[18]

References
  1. "CLARISSA GAROTINHO – Biografia". Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  2. "Com 20% do eleitorado, evangélicos são disputados no Rio". terra.com (in Portuguese). 7 June 2012. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  3. "Deputada Clarissa Garotinho está noiva" (in Portuguese). 1 January 2016. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  4. Salme, Flávia (23 August 2010). "Corte entendeu que filha do casal Garotinho, que concorre à Alerj, "sofreu discriminação" do PMDB e foi obrigada a ir para o PR". iG Rio de Janeiro (in Portuguese). Último Segundo. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  5. "DEM e PR vão oficializar Clarissa Garotinho como vice de Rodrigo Maia no Rio" (in Portuguese). Veja. 5 March 2012. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  6. Bruno, Cassio (25 June 2012). "Rodrigo Maia e Clarissa Garotinho lançam candidatura" (in Portuguese). O Globo. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  7. Castro, Juliana (24 June 2014). "'Maior arrependimento de minha vida foi ter sido vice de Rodrigo Maia', diz Clarissa Garotinho" (in Portuguese). O Globo. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  8. "Clarissa Garotinho 2222 (PR) Deputada - Rio de Janeiro - Eleições 2014" (in Portuguese). Eleições 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  9. "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.
  10. Magalhães, Vera (14 April 2016). "Grávida, Clarissa Garotinho deve se ausentar de votação" (in Portuguese). Veja. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  11. Noblat, Ricardo (15 April 2016). "Afinal, o governo ganha mais um voto contra o impeachment" (in Portuguese). O Globo. Archived from the original on 18 August 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  12. Amado, Guilherme (15 April 2016). "O porquê da súbita mudança de Clarissa Garotinho sobre o impeachment" (in Portuguese). O Globo. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  13. "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 23 December 2019.
  14. "PR expulsa Clarissa Garotinho por infidelidade partidária". Bem Paraná (in Portuguese). 21 November 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  15. Bragon, Ranier (21 November 2016). "PR anuncia expulsão de Clarissa Garotinho por infidelidade partidária" (in Portuguese). Folha de S.Paulo. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  16. Fernandes, Leticia (6 December 2016). "Expulsa do PR, Clarissa Garotinho se filia ao PRB de Crivella" (in Portuguese). O Globo. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  17. Gullino, Daniel (9 March 2018). "Garotinho, Rosinha e Clarissa serão investigados por 'barraco' em hospital" (in Portuguese). O Globo. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  18. Gomes Freire, Quintino (12 February 2019). "Clarissa Garotinho pode ser candidata a prefeito do Rio em 2020" (in Portuguese). Diário do Rio. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
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