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Vera Lúcia Pereira da Silva Salgado (born 12 September 1967) better known as Vera Lúcia is a Brazilian politician affiliated with the Unified Workers' Socialist Party. She has contested elections many times, including the
2018 Brazilian presidential election General elections were held in Brazil on 7 October 2018 to elect the president, National Congress of Brazil, National Congress and Governor (Brazil), state governors. As no candidate in the presidential election (and for the gubernatorial electi ...
, but has not been elected to public office.


Personal life

Salgado grew up the youngest of 10 children, in a poor
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family in the state of
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. In her youth she worked in the shoe making industry, and became involved in trade unionist organizations as a result of the companies taking advantage of their workers. Throughout her life Salgado has worked various jobs to sustain herself, such as a being a waitress, cleaning lady, and even a typist. She is an alumnus of the
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.


Political career

Originally affiliated with the Worker's Party, Salgado and several other politicians were expelled in 1992 after supporting the impeachment of then president
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. In 1994 she joined the newly formed Unified Workers' Socialist Party, and was one of the party's key founders. She is the leader for the party in the northeast division of Brazil. Salgado has been the PSTU candidate for mayor of
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in the last four elections, with the best result coming in 2012 where she received 20,241 votes, or 6.6% of the valid votes. In the
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and the
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she ran for the
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and in 2010 was a candidate for the governor of
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, although she was not successful in any of these elections. Salgado was nominated and ran for president in the 2018 election, and received 55,762 votes, or 0.05% of the valid votes.


References

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