Selena Caprichoso
The Most Honorable Selena Caprichoso | |
|---|---|
 Selena Caprichoso in 2021 | |
| Deputy Premier of Paretia | |
| Assumed office August 6 2021 Serving with Horácio Pacau | |
| Preceded by | Carlos Del Alvarez Paulo Sérgio Lima |
| General Secretary of the Patron League | |
| Assumed office 15 June 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Congresswoman of Lacuna | |
| Assumed office 25 July 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Maximiliano Machado |
| Leader of the Patron League | |
| In office 20 December 2013 – 15 June 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Position changed |
| Mayoress of Lacuna | |
| In office 16 October 2006 – 25 July 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Iolanda Mata |
| Succeeded by | Lucas Nogeira |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Selena Natavidade Reis Caprichoso 4 October 1976 (Aged 45) Verainho, Luzela |
| Political party | Conservative Union (1998-2011) Patron League (2011-) |
| Spouse | Leonel Braga (m 2012.) |
| Children | 2: Marco Clara |
| Alma mater | University of Paralo, Saint Roderic University |
Selena Natavidade Reis Caprichoso(Born 4 October 1976) is a Paretian politician and political leader. She is currently serving as Deputy Premier of Paretia since August 2021.
For much of Caprichoso's career she has served as the leader of the right-wing populist Patron League, which she founded in December 2013. She entered politics serving as the Mayoress of Lacuna from 2016 to 2014, originally as a member of the Conservative Union. Part of the populist euclosceptic wing of the party, she became growingly dissatisfied with the UC's slow push towards the center. Many of the party's leaders became pro-EC and more liberal conservative and centrist.
Alongside Paulo Sérgio Lima and António De Armas, she founded the Patron League in 2013, and ran for Lacuna in the 2014 elections, she would end up winning her seats alongside her party winning a few more. The party would later make more victories in the 2017 elections, and became join the loosely-united UC-lead coalition, and was very influential on the coalition's voting, and at times dissenting to the coalition, which was lead by Vasco Gonçalves. During this time she became close friends with the few populist UC members left, including the influential Isilda Cerqueira, who was growing weary of staying in her party. They also became close with the Alt Party, another populist euclosceptic party centered around direct democracy, lead by Horácio Pacau.
In the 2020 elections her party would take many of the UC's seats, which many had switched parties or lost to the LP. It became the third-largest party and was able to threaten to collapse the government unless a new Premier was selected. They called on the independent populist and friend of the LP Isilda Cerqueira to become the new Premier.
In 2021 Cerqueira and Caprichoso began to realize the UC and the other parties were too moderate for them, and Cerqueira decided to join the LP in June 2021. She then called for a snap election. The LdP and Conservative Union would leave the coalition and a snap election would be called. A decision between Cerqueira and Caprichoso was made the split the leadership of the LP, with Cerqueira as Chairwoman and Caprichoso as General Secretary. The 2021 snap election saw the LP wipe out the UC, which had become swallowed with controversy and unpopularity, as well as hold off the rising left-wing Social Democrats.
The election saw the LP and the Alt Party decided to form a government together under the alliance O Povo. Caprichoso and Pacau would become both Deputy Premier of Paretia under the new Cerqueira-lead far-right populist government.
Caprichoso's politics has been described as far-right populist, hardline-euclosceptic, and nationalist. She has described herself as social conservative on most social issues, and has defined her economic stances as "economic populist with a sprinkle of socialism".