Isilda Cerqueira

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The Most Honorable
Isilda Sã Fausta Cerqueira
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Isilda Cerqueira in 2020
Premier of Paretia
Assumed office
11 August 2020
MonarchErasmo
DeputyCarlos del Alvarez
Paulo Sérgio Lima
Preceded byVasco Gonçalves
Congresswoman of Cresceu
In office
2017–2020
Preceded byElvira Patino
Succeeded byCristiano Gomes
Congresswoman of Cresceu
In office
2008–2011
Preceded byMário De Souza
Succeeded byElvira Patino
Personal details
Born
Isilda Sã Fausta Cerqueira

3 May 1979 (Aged 42)
Cresceu, Luzela
Political partyIndependent (2019-Present)
Conservative Party (2007-2019)
SpouseNicolau Ferrer (m. 2008)
ChildrenMarisa
Ângela
Alma materMercurius et Vulcanus University

Isilda Sã Fausta Cerqueira(Born 3 May 1979) is a Paretian activist, businesswoman, journalist, radio host, and politician, who is currently serving 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, Mercurius et Vulcanus 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.

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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.

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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 Caprichoso, 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. She would win narrowly against tough competition from the Catholics for Liberty candidate. In her acceptance speech she apologized to the her past controversies and pledged to start a more civil second term.

Second Congressional Term

Cerqueira giving a speech before the Câmara Do Congresso in 2019

Cerqueira's second term would last from 2017 to 2020. She would attempt to keep her new promise and becoming a less controversial voice among the populists in the congress. In the congress she would begin to grow a close relationship with another new populist party that made it's first appearance in congress that year, the Alternative Party let by former Catholics for Liberty party member Horácio Pacau. His Party was similar to the Selena Caprichoso's Patron League however was more economically socialist and was more popular among radical centrists. Despite their differences, Cerqueira would become very supportive of these new populists. During her term, she many times would vote against the mainstream Conservative Union bills that the populists were against, even voting alongside the Social Democrats to stop such bills from being passed. However about 70% of the bills proposed by the CU, she voted in favor of, it wasn't until the later half of her term she would begin to go against the party leadership again.

In a few cases Cerqueira criticized the government of Vasco Gonçalves, saying that they are attempting to put Paretia under complete control of the EC in exchange for benefits and bribes. Despite this, she was still supportive of the CU, and voted on some of the CU's most important bills on their agenda such as taxes, immigration, and military funding. Many defined this period of Cerqueira's career as a time where she wanted to change the CU from within and "save the party" and not make new parties, using up more resources and taking in too much risk. However despite this she was still criticized, especially by the media for her brash tone which she still had, even though she promised a more civil second term at the congress. Due to this, in September 2018 she would call the media "members of the cabal of EC conspirators trying to strip away Paretian independence, they hate the Paretian citizen, they just attack me because I'm in the way of them." This only ramped up the negative coverage of Cerqueira. The SD official newspaper Mudança coming out with a headline calling her "The Nationalist Witch of Paretia" who "casts deceptive spells of hope and freedom on the working class for their votes and attention", however the name has stuck and she would use it as a badge of honor for herself, calling herself "The Witch" and on halloween wore a witch costume to congress.

In November 2018, a vote to pass a bill to move much of the nuclear energy funding to the EC, particularly the ECB in Paretia was proposed, it was supported by the Conservative establishment and Social Democrats. However the bill would not make it through when multiple populists from the Social Democrats and Conservative Party, led by Cerqueira, allied with the Alternatives and Patron League to stop the bill from moving forward from the Congress. This angered much of the Conservative Leadership and lead to the party nearly abandoning any funding or donations to those who voted against it, leading to multiple announcements of party-switches in the 2020 election by populists in the CU. In 2019 the party would announce that they will run a challenger against Cerqueira in the district of Cresceu for the 2020 election, in response, Cerqueira would announce that at the end of her term she will leave the Conservative Union and become an independent, as well as announcing that she will not run again in 2020 but instead will become a leader for the conservatives and populists of Paretia, and began supporting candidates of all parties in the election in July.

During the 2020 election she would heavily fund Selena Caprichoso and the Patron League as well as the Alternative Party and even would donate to the Esmeira Party led by Salvador Modesto. She would begin starting anti-EC rallies and became a big media figure debating on multiple news channels and radio stations. While supporting the populists in the country she also began to heavily attack the Social Democrats, who much of the polls predicted to make big gains in the 2020 election. She would liken them as "false communists who hate the worker and love the EC".

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