Youngest Brazilian parliamentarian takes office against abortion, drugs, and gender ideology

University student Chiara Biondini (PP) takes office as Minas Gerais state parliamentarian on Thursday (Feb. 23) as the youngest representative in the history of the Minas legislative.

Only 21 years and 1 day old, she had her investiture authorized by Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), after a lawsuit filed by her substitute, who claimed she was not at least 21 years old for the mandate.

Chiara received over 34,000 votes and ranked 73rd among the 77 elected Minas Gerais Legislative Assembly members.

The young woman intends to defend conservative agendas, such as maintaining the abortion ban, the criminalization of drugs, and being against gender identity.

“[Being a young conservative] is not a contradiction. It’s what I believe and what is part of my life. There are things we can innovate, but others are immutable, like the prohibition of abortion, drugs, and gender ideology,” she said in an interview with Folha de São Paulo.

The new parliamentarian from Minas Gerais also says that she will have youth and entrepreneurship as her flags.

Chiara is the daughter of federal congressman Eros Biondini (PL), a foundation leader that re-socializes drug addicts through religion in Belo Horizonte.

“It was our group, the “Corrente do Bem” (Current of Good), which identified in Chiara the capacity to strengthen our work and our Catholic and philanthropic actions”, he said days after his daughter was elected in an interview with the newspaper Estado de Minas.

Chiara says that politics, when well executed, “is a tool that transforms people and facilitates the State’s help to citizens” and that her election to the Minas Gerais State Assembly “represents the people’s hope in the youth, aiming to make a differentiated politics”, she added to the same newspaper.

Also, during the second round of the 2022 election, Chiara declared herself “100% [Jair] Bolsonaro” and engaged in the campaign for the reelection of the former president.

With information from Gazeta do Povo