Professora Dorinha

A former state education secretary of Tocantins, she was a federal deputy from 2011 to 2023 and has been a senator for Tocantins since 2023. She is named among the possible contenders in the 2026 Tocantins governor election.

Career

The Federal Senate profile records a degree in pedagogy from the Federal University of Goiás and a master's in Brazilian school education from the Catholic University of Goiás. According to Wikipedia she is a university professor. She was federal deputy for Tocantins from 1 February 2011 to 1 February 2023, and was elected senator in 2022 with about half of the vote, for a term running to 2031. She belonged to the PFL and its successor DEM until 2022 and has been in União Brasil since. The Senate lists her as leader of the Democracia parliamentary bloc.

Positions

Wikipedia records that as a deputy she voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, opposed the 2015 tax reforms and supported the 2017 labour reform, and that she would have voted against opening a corruption investigation into Michel Temer. Her party, União Brasil, is described by Wikipedia as centre-right, combining liberal conservatism, economic liberalism and social conservatism.

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