Rosângela Matheus

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Rosinha Matheus

Rosângela Rosinha Garotinho Barros Assed Matheus de Oliveira was the first woman to be elected governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro. Elected in 2002, she was successor of Benedita da Silva, whom the position due to resignation of then governor Anthony Garotinho was exerting, husband of Rosinha, that if moved away from the position to concur for the presidency of the republic. During the campaign it used the name Rosinha Garotinho, to have its image associated with the one of the husband.

Son of Gandur Assed and Wilmar Barros Assed, she was born in Itaperuna, Rio de Janeiro on April 6, 1963. Inhabitant of Campos dos Goytacazes since her four years of age, acted in the amateur theater until the 26 years, there knowing Anthony Garotinho, with who if she married in 1981.

Teacher for the Colégio Batista Fluminense and worked as broadcaster in Campos dos Goytacazes, the radios diffusing, Continental, Culture and the Litoral FM, and in Rio de Janeiro in the Tupi radios and O Dia.

During the government of its husband she was secretary of Social Action and Citizenship.

It has 4 children: Clarrissa, Wladimir, Anthony and Clara. The Couple still adopted others five children: Aparecida, Altamir, Amanda, Wanderson and David.

It is defended by some commentators politicians (for example, in the Época) magazine the fact to assume its religion (Presbyterian) granted to it the support electoral of part of the Brazilian evangelical churches.

During its public debate was established on relation between Religion and State. Some agencies of communication had accused it to promote the education of the Charles Darwin evolution Theory, even because the governor already public presented its incredulity in the theory of the evolution of Charles Darwin. One understands, however, that religious education is of the responsibility of the professors of each religious confession (what it implies, according to critical, that if can teach to the pupils the theory if the professor thus understanding, in accordance with its religious beliefs).

Governor Rosinha, opposing what some critics insist, only homologated the law that religious education in the schools instituted publishes, law this of initiative of the Catholic Church, through the state deputy and bishops important Catholics as Dom Philip Santoro of the archdiocese of Petrópolis.

In 2005, Rosinha was condemned by Electoral Justice for a stated period of three years, to count of 2004, for considering it guilty of accusations of abuse of being able economic and politician, use of the public machine, money and distribution without origin proven during the last elections. She was acquitted for the plenary assembly of the TRE of these same accusations. The candidate who the Garotinho defended in the Fields, Geraldo Pudim, was acquitted, being enters the probable victorious people in the electoral campaign that goes until March 12.

Together with its husband and the candidate to the city hall of de Campos, Geraldo Pudim, the governor was condemned judicially by distributing, according to judicial sentence, basic baskets, houses to a Real, money for purchase of pertaining to school votes and kits in the electoral campaign in Fields, being fit in the article 41-A of the Electoral Law. The ineligibility penalty was however reverted in second tier, even so the accusations has been kept. The Governor still did not decide its future politician, but second onslaught must apoior the husband in its the Presidency of the Republic, and if to candidate to the Federal Senate.

In the year 2006 as much Rosinha how much Anthony Garotinho again had been accused to commit crimes, benefiting and being benefited for irregular money in electoral campaigns, both accuse the press, mainly the Organizações Globo and the Revista Veja not to have the same space in the media for its defenses as well as was given for the denunciations, culminating in the hunger strike of Garotinho.