title: Dâmina Pereira
text: # Dâmina Pereira
  
  Dâmina de Carvalho Pereira (born 2 December 1952) is a Brazilian politician and businesswoman. She has spent her political career representing Minas Gerais, having served as federal deputy representative from 2015 to 2019.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  Pereira was born to Joao Pereira de Carvalho and Waldette Rodrigues de Carvalho. Before becoming a politician Pereira worked as a businesswoman.
  
  ## Political career
  
  Pereira voted in favor of the impeachment of then-president Dilma Rousseff. She voted in favor of 2015 tax reforms but against the 2017 Brazilian labor reform, and would vote against the opening of a corruption investigation into Rousseff's successor Michel Temer.
  
  Pereira is the first women to be elected to the chamber of deputies from the municipality of Lavras. Originally elected as a member of the Party of National Mobilization, Pereira joined the Party of the Brazilian Woman in 2015, then the Social Liberal Party the following year. In 2018 she joined Podemos.
  
  