| Marcelo Aro | |
| Office: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies |
| Term Start: | 1 February 2015 |
| Term End: | 1 February 2023 |
| Constituency: | Minas Gerais |
| Birth Name: | Marcelo Guilherme de Aro Ferreira |
| Birth Date: | 12 June 1987 |
| Birth Place: | Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| Party: | PP (since 2019) |
| Otherparty: | PHS (2010–2018) |
| Occupation: | Journalist, lawyer |
Marcelo Guilherme de Aro Ferreira (born 12 June 1987) better known as simply Marcelo Aro is a Brazilian politician and journalist. He has spent his political career representing Minas Gerais, having served as state representative since 2015.[1]
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.