Bernardo Ribas Carli | |
Office: | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Paraná |
Term Start: | August 6, 2011 |
Term End: | July 22, 2018 |
Birth Date: | 26 February 1986 |
Birth Place: | Guarapuava, Paraná, Brazil |
Death Place: | Paula Freitas, Paraná, Brazil |
Party: | Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) |
Alma Mater: | Universidade Positivo |
Relatives: | Ana Rita Slaviero Guimarães Carli (mother) (father) (brother) |
Bernardo Ribas Carli (February 26, 1986 – July 22, 2018) was a Brazilian politician and member of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB). He served as a state deputy in the Legislative Assembly of Paraná from 2011 until his death in office due to plane crash in 2018.[1]
Carli was a native of the city of Guarapuava, where his family had built a political base. His father,, is a former three-term Mayor of Guarapuava, state deputy and federal deputy.[1] His brother,, is a former Paraná state deputy who resigned from the Legislative Assembly and was expelled from his party in 2009 following a fatal drunk driving car crash in Curitiba.[2] Fernando Ribas Carli Filho was later sentenced to nine years in prison for his role in accident, which killed two people.[1]
Following the arrest and resignation of his brother, Bernardo Ribas Carli became a first time candidate for the Legislative Assembly of Paraná in 2010.[1] He was elected to the state legislative assembly as a member of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB).[1] Ribas Carli's election was nullified in 2011 due to irregular expenses in his 2010 campaign.[1] However, the nullification was later overturned and Bernardo Ribas Carli was allowed to remain in the state Legislative Assembly.[1]
On July 22, 2018, Bernardo Ribas Carli was killed in a small plane crash in a forested area in the city of Paula Freitas, near Paraná's state border with Santa Catarina.[1] The pilot and co-pilot were also killed.[1] Bernardo Ribas Carli was 32 years old.[1]