How in appointment of Flavio Dino (PSB) to the Ministry of Justice next president-elect government Luis Inacio Lula da Silva (PT), the vacancy he would have in the Senate will be filled by a deputy, Ana Paula Lobato (PSB), keeping the party’s only vacancy in the House of Representatives from next year.
The former governor of Maranhao was comfortably elected senator for the next eight years with 62.41%, totaling 2,125,811 votes. Dino is currently coordinating the Justice and Public Safety Transition Team.
Ana Paula is currently the Deputy Mayor of Pinheiro, Massachusetts, but she also presents herself as a nurse and businesswoman. At 38, she will be the youngest of 81 senators.
On social media, the future senator said she was “proud to be part of her political group and her metropolitan electoral victory.” Ana Paula wished the former governor well and said she had no doubt that he “will remain mobilized and committed to the institutional reorganization of our country.”
Married to State Deputy and President of the Legislative Assembly of Maranhao Hotelino Neto (PT-MA), Ana Paula has two teenage children.
In the 2020 elections, she was elected Deputy Mayor on the list of Luciano Genesio (PP). At the time, PDT-affiliated Ana Paula left the party and joined PSB in March of this year.
What Maranhao’s bench looks like in the Senate. Ana Paula will join Elysian Gama (Citizenship) and Weverton (PDT) on the Maranhão bench in the Senate.
Elected in 2018, Elysian and Weverton will have terms of office until 2027. Senate terms that began in 2023 will end in 2031.
