Rosângela Matheus

Rosângela Rosinha Garotinho Barros Assed Matheus de Oliveira (born April 6, 1963) is a Brazilian politician.

She was the first woman to be elected governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro. Elected in 2002, she was successor of Benedita da Silva, whom the position due to resignation of then governor Anthony Garotinho was exerting, husband of Rosinha, that if moved away from the position to concur for the presidency of the republic. During the campaign it used the name Rosinha Garotinho, to have its image associated with the one of the husband.

Son of Gandur Assed and Wilmar Barros Assed, she was born in Itaperuna, Rio de Janeiro, she lives in Campos dos Goytacazes since her four years of age, acted in the amateur theater until the 26 years, there knowing Anthony Garotinho, with who if she married in 1981.

Teacher for the Colégio Batista Fluminense and has worked as broadcaster in Campos dos Goytacazes, the radios diffusing, Continental, Culture and the Litoral FM, and in Rio de Janeiro in the Tupi radios and O Dia.

During the government of her husband she was the State Secretary of Social Action and Citizenship.

She has 4 children: Clarrissa, Wladimir, Anthony and Clara. The Couple still adopted others five children: Aparecida, Altamir, Amanda, Wanderson and David.

In 2005, Rosinha was condemned by Electoral Justice for a stated period of three years, to count of 2004, for abuse of economic and political power, for use of the public goods and personnel and for money and distribution without proven legal source during the last elections. She was acquitted by the assembly of the TRE of these same accusations. The candidate who the Garotinho defended in Campos, Geraldo Pudim, was also acquitted.

Together with its husband and the candidate to the city hall of de Campos, Geraldo Pudim, the governor was condemned judicially by distributing, according to judicial sentence, basic baskets, houses to a Real, money for purchase of pertaining to school votes and kits in the electoral campaign in Fields, being fit in the article 41-A of the Electoral Law. The ineligibility penalty was however reverted in second tier, even so the accusations has been kept. The Governor still did not decide its future politician, but second onslaught must apoior the husband in its Presidency of the Republic, and if to candidate to the Federal Senate.

In the year 2006 both Rosinha and Anthony Garotinho were accused of committing crimes, namely benefiting from irregular money in electoral campaigns, both accuse the press, mainly the Organizações Globo and the Revista Veja not to have the same space in the media for its defenses as well as was given for the denunciations, culminating in the hunger strike of Garotinho.

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* [http://revistaepoca.globo.com/Epoca/0,6993,EPT731621-1655,00.html On the religious education: the lines of direction of the Ministry of Education and the Law of the State of Rio De Janeiro]