Margarete de Castro Coelho (São Raimundo Nonato, PI, March 12, 1961) is a Brazilian lawyer and politician, a federal deputy elected to represent

Piauí Piaui (, ) is one of the states of Brazil, located in the country's Northeast Region. The state has 1.6% of the Brazilian population and produces 0.7% of the Brazilian GDP. Piaui has the shortest coastline of any coastal Brazilian state at 66&n ...

. Affiliated to

Progressistas Progressistas (; PP) is a centre-right to right-wing political party in Brazil. Founded in 1995 as the Brazilian Progressive Party, it emerged from parties that were successors to ARENA, the ruling party of the Brazilian military dictatorship. A ...

, she fulfilled the mandate of vice-governor of Piauí between 2015 and 2019, having been the first woman elected in the state for the position.

Biography

Daughter of Aloisio Rubem de Castro and Edvaldina Gonçalves de Castro. Specialist lawyer in Procedural Law from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, in Constitutional Law from the Federal University of Piauí and in Electoral Law, from the Electoral Judicial School of the Regional Electoral Court of Piauí in agreement with the Federal University of Piauí. She was a professor in the Law course at

State University of Piauí State may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Literature * ''State Magazine'', a monthly magazine published by the U.S. Department of State * ''The State'' (newspaper), a daily newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, United States * ''Our S ...

. Married to Marcelo Coelho, she was his successor in the Legislative Assembly of Piauí and was elected state deputy in 2010 by the PP and in 2014 became the first woman to be elected vice-governor of Piauí. In 2018, she was elected federal deputy.

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