Marcelo Aro

Aro was born to Jose Guilherme Ferreira Filho and Marli Aparecida de Aro.^[1] Prior to becoming a politician Aro worked as a journalist.^[1]

At the age of just 25, Aro was voted into the city council of his home city with 9,412 in the 2012 local election.^[2] In the 2014 Brazilian general election, Aro was elected to the federal chamber of deputies with .^[3]

Aro voted in favor of the impeachment motion of then-president Dilma Rousseff.^[4] Aro would vote against a similar corruption investigation into Rousseff's successor Michel Temer,^[5] and he voted in favor of the 2017 Brazilian labor reforms.^[6]

In January 2018 Aro became the president of the Humanist Party of Solidarity.^[7] After the 2018 Brazilian general election however the Humanist party failed to win enough seats to secure funding, and subsequently merged with the Podemos party.^[8] In January of the following year Aro joined the Progressive party.^[1] He ran for senator in 2022, but was beaten by Cleitinho Azevedo.