Isilda Cerqueira

The Most Honorable Isilda Sã Fausta Cerqueira
Isilda Cerqueira in 2020
Premier of Paretia
Incubent
Assumed office 11 August 2020
Monarch	Erasmo
Deputy	Carlos del Alvarez Paulo Sérgio Lima
Preceded by	Vasco Gonçalves
Congresswoman of Cresceu
In office 2017–2019
Preceded by	Elvira Patino
Succeeded by	Cristiano Gomes
Congresswoman of Cresceu
In office 2008–2011
Preceded by	Mário De Souza
Succeeded by	Elvira Patino
Personal details
Born	Isilda Sã Fausta Cerqueira 3 May 1979(Aged 42) Cresceu, Luzela
Political party	Independent(2019-Present) Conservative Party(2007-2019)
Spouse	Nicolau Ferrer(2008-Present)
Children	Marisa Ângela
Alma mater	Forja Vulcana University

Isilda Sã Fausta Cerqueira(Born 3 May 1979) is a Paretian activist, businesswoman, journalist, radio host, and politician, who is currently servicing as Premier of Paretia since her appointment to the office in 2020.

Early Life

Cerqueira was born in Cresceu, Luzela on the 3rd of May, 1979. She grew up in a fairly well off family, her father, Luzio Cerqueira, was the head of a shipping company in Trovão and her mother, Safira, was a playwright and was the assistant manager of the Cresceu Theatre. She attended a private school in Trovão and would study Radio and Television and well as Economics at the University of Trovão. She would later attend the nation's most prestigious college, Forja Vulcana University in Precea, to study Journalism, Arts, and Political Science.

Early Political Career

Cerqueira with formor Conservative Union Congressman Franco Jimenez in 2006

She would start out in her political as a reporter for the paper A Vidiera in 1999. In 2005 would later move on to becoming a co-host for the right wing political radio show O Fato é Que hosted by a popular conservative comedian. She turned out to be a popular member of the show and was a favorite among it's fans. At this time she became a major conservative activist among the populist wing of the The Conservative Union. Os Quatro, the media corporation in charge of the show, would giver Cerqueira her own show in 2006. The show was called Voz do Isilda, her popularity soared immediately, as well as her controversy. Her anti-EC rhetoric was criticized by her own party regularly and many of it's members, particularly the party leadership, tried to distance themselves from Cerqueira.

WIP

Despite all of the controversies, Voz do Isilda would become a top 10 show in all four of the Kingdoms of the Paretia. In 2007, she would announce her campaign to run for a seat in the Câmara Do Congresso representing the congressional district for Cresceu. She would be accepted as the candidate for the Conservative Union in the election. She would run against tough Social Democrat and Liberal competition but would narrowly win the district and become the first woman to represent the district as well as the first radio host to become a member of the Assembleia Nacional.

Congressional Career

First Congressional Term

She was welcomed by the populist wing of the legislature and instantly became a controversial figure in the congress. In her first term from 2008 to 2011, the Conservative Union and their allies were in the minority opposition as the Social Democrats and The Greens won big in the election overall.

WIP

In 2011 would announce she would not run for another term as she wanted to continue her earlier career and expand her radio show to beyond radio and expand to social media.

Between terms

Cerqueira with populist candidates at a rally in 2014

She would return to regularly hosting her show Voz Do Isilda in 2011, where she would expand to becoming a political figure on various social media. She made herself a populist activist and would regularly criticize the now-in-power Conservative Party lead by newly appointed Premier Vasco Gonçalves. She would endorse populists only during elections and ignored the other members of the party. many thought she was going to join a new party or even make her own. In 2014, 2015, and 2016, her radio show was #1 in the country and many thought she could become a powerful political figure again in the future.

In 2013 she would tell the Conservatives that "The CU brand is changing from crony capitalist hacks, evolve along with it or be left in the dust in the future" this statement would lead to a attempt to expel Cerqueira from the party which ending in failure. In June 2016 she praised then-Etrurian President candidate Francesco Carcaterra and his Tribune Movement as a "great candidate for the Etrurian people" and "prime example of what our party should look to for answers to questions of it's direction". This statement was met with backlash from the mostly pro-EC members of the party, anti-Tribune Movement Etrurians and Premier Conçalves. She would later praise the newly formed populist Patron League led by Selena Capriche, a former Conservative Union member that would form a party with other populists, however, Cerqueira only praised them as an example of what the CU should become. When asked if she would leave her own party or make a new one, she said that it is "too risky and the chances of succeeding against the established parties would be difficult to overcome".

Her controversy continued and in December 2016 she would call she called those who vote pro-EC candidates "traitors that should go live somewhere else and stop contaminating the gene pool here in Paretia". This lead to her show being put on hold by Os Quatros. The stalling and then termination of her show would become the main factor in her decision to again for the Câmara Do Congresso in 2017, again as the Conservative candidate for Cresceu.