Celina Leão Hizim Ferreira (born 2 March 1977) is a Brazilian business administrator and politician affiliated to the Progressistas (PP), who currently serves as the Governor of the Federal District, having succeeded Ibaneis Rocha after his resignation to run for the Federal Senate.
Leão was elected in the first round as Vice-Governor in 2022, and served only 8 days before assuming the interim governorship after the removal of her running mate Rocha for 90 days by the Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. Ibaneis was removed after being accused of ignoring security flaws during the 8 January Brasília attacks. The decision to remove Ibaneis from office ended up being endorsed in plenary of the Supreme Federal Court by 9 votes to 2, but it was later revoked by Alexandre de Moraes on 15 March 2023, resulting in Leão resuming her post as Vice-Governor.
Leão is a former federal deputy and former state deputy, and she previously served as a president of the Legislative Chamber of the Federal District. Political career In February 2016, after Cristovam Buarque and José Reguffe decided to leave the Democratic Labour Party she also left the political party. A month later, she decided to join the Popular Socialist Party, where she stayed until she decided to left in March 2018. Soon after, she joined the Progressistas (PP), after being invited to run for federal deputy.
Controversies In March 2017, the Court of Justice of the Federal District and Territories received a complaint from the Public Ministry and decided to turn Celina and five other district deputies defendants for passive corruption, as part of the so-called Operation Drácon. According to investigations, in 2015, the defendants asked for bribes from companies providing ICU services in the public network of the state. The state deputy appealed to the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) in an attempt to annul the process, claiming that the evidence had been obtained illegally because it had been recorded on the complainant's cell phone. The Superior Court of Justice rejected the appeal.
Electoral history YearElectionPartyOfficeCoalitionPartnersPartyVotesPercentResult 2010 District Elections of the Federal District District Deputy Progressive Mobilization colspan="3" 7,771 0.55% 2014 District Elections of the Federal District We Are All Brasília II colspan="3" 12,670 0.83% 2018 District Elections of the Federal District Federal Deputy To Make the Difference I colspan="3" 31,610 2.20% 2022 District Elections of the Federal District Vice Governor United for DF Ibaneis Rocha 832,633 50.31%
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