The substitute will remain in the House for six months; she emigrated from Lula’s party and helped found the PSOL and Rede
BRASILIA – The former senator Héloïsa Helena (Rede-RJ) returns to National Congress after 18 years. she will replace Glauber Braga (PSOL-RJ), which had the mandate suspended for six months this Wednesday 10, by decision of the plenary of the Chamber of Deputies.
Glauber said he hasn’t spoken to him in the past two days, but he has confidence in the former senator. “I have confidence in Heloísa’s trajectory and activism,” he said.
Helena is one of the founders of the Network and of the PSOL itself, which she founded in 2004, after opening a disagreement with the leadership of the first government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The Network is now part of a federation with the PSOL.
The culmination of the struggle that led to the departure of the party and the creation of the PSOL was the social security reform taken up by the PT government, which Heloísa Helena began to describe as “neoliberal”.
When she chose to leave the PT, Helena was a senator from Alagoas. She was elected in 1998 and remained in the Chamber until 2007. During the 2006 elections, she was a candidate for President of the Republic for the young PSOL. He finished this contest in third place, with 6.85% of the votes.
Now on the network it crashed an internal political dispute with the Minister of the Environment, Marina Silvaby order of the party to which he belongs. She emerged triumphant over the head of the department.
Heloísa Helena is a nurse and teacher. She, whose political trajectory is linked to social movements, has already been vice-mayor of Maceió between 1993 and 1995. She also served as a state deputy for Alagoas between 1995 and 1999.
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