Christiane Yared | |
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Federal Deputy for Paraná | |
Assumed office 1 February 2015 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil | 23 February 1960
Political party | PL |
Profession | Pastor, professor, businesswoman |
Christiane de Souza Yared (born 23 February 1960) is a Brazilian politician. She has spent her political career representing Paraná, having served as state representative since 2015.[1]
Yared is the daughter of Althair Costa Souza and Sulamite Souza.[1] She is married to Gilmar Yared (now divorced) and has three children. One of her sons was killed in a car crash in May 2009.[2] As a result of her son's death, Yared has campaigned for traffic safety.[3]
Verde has also worked as a professor, businesswoman,[1] and an evangelical pastor[4] of the Pentecostal church Catedral do Reino de Deus in Curitiba, along with her mother who is also a pastor at the church.[3]
Yared was elected to the federal senate of deputies in the 2014 election receiving 200,144 votes and being in the top five most voted candidates from the state of Paraná.[5]
Yared voted in favor of the impeachment of then-president Dilma Rousseff.[6] Yared voted against the 2017 Brazilian labor reform,[7] and would vote in favor of a corruption investigation into Rousseff's successor Michel Temer.[8]