Talíria Petrone | |
Office: | Federal Deputy from Rio de Janeiro |
Term Start: | 1 February 2019 |
Office1: | Chamber PSOL Leader |
Term Start1: | 3 February 2021 |
Predecessor1: | Sâmia Bomfim |
Office2: | City Councillor for Niterói |
Term Start2: | 1 January 2017 |
Term End2: | 1 February 2019 |
Birth Name: | Talíria Petrone Soares |
Birth Date: | 9 April 1985 |
Birth Place: | Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Party: | PSOL (2011–present) |
Profession: | Teacher |
Talíria Petrone Soares (born 9 April 1985) is a Brazilian politician. She has spent her political career representing Rio de Janeiro, having served as federal deputy representative since 2019.[1]
Petrone is the daughter of a musician and a teacher. She graduated with a degree in history from the Rio de Janeiro State University and with a master's degree in social work from Fluminense Federal University. Prior to entering politics, she worked as a public school teacher.[2]
She identifies as an Afro-Brazilian, socialist, feminist, and supportive of LGBT rights.[3] She was a close friend and inspired by late politician and activist Marielle Franco.[4]
Petrone was the most voted candidate in the 2016 election for the council of Niterói, receiving 5,121 votes.[5] In the 2018 election Petrone was the eighth most voted candidate in the state of Rio de Janeiro, with 107,317, being elected to the federal chamber of deputies.[6] Petrone said that she received threats from opposition supporters.[7] In June 2019 Brazilian civil police made arrest in a plot to assassinate Petrone, which was being hatched and planned from a dark web platform starting in 2018.[8]
In March 2022 Petrone was amongst 151 international feminists signing Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto, in solidarity with the Feminist Anti-War Resistance initiated by Russian feminists after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[9]