15 Facts About Luciana Genro

Luciana Krebs Genro is a Brazilian politician, state deputy and one of the founders of the Socialism and Freedom Party.

Luciana Genro came in 4th place, receiving more than 1.6 million votes nationally.

Luciana Genro is the daughter of Tarso Genro, a Workers' Party politician and former governor of Rio Grande do Sul.

Luciana Genro was elected in 1994, at the age of 23, for her first term as state deputy, and re-elected in 1998 with twice the previous vote.

Luciana Genro voted against and was expelled from the party by Jose Dirceu and Jose Genoino, who are now detained after the Mensalao scandal.

Luciana Genro started, with Heloisa Helena and other dissident deputies, the founding process of PSOL, consolidated in 2005.

Luciana Genro was a candidate for the Presidency of Brazil in the 2014 elections.

Luciana Genro ended the contest in 4th place, with more than 1.6 million votes.

Luciana Genro was a candidate for mayor of Porto Alegre in 2016.

Luciana Genro confirmed her interest in the dispute after her name appeared first in a poll that measures voting intentions.

Luciana Genro is the daughter of Tarso Luciana Genro and Sandra Krebs.

Luciana Genro is the granddaughter of Adelmo Simas Genro, a member of the historical Brazilian Labor Party who was murdered by the military dictatorship, and niece of Adelmo Genro Filho, a journalist now deceased.

Luciana Genro has one son, Fernando Marcel Genro Robaina, born in 1988.

Fernando's father is Roberto Robaina, a party director of PSOL with whom Luciana Genro lived together for three and a half years.

Luciana Genro separated from Robaina in 1991 and married journalist Sergio Bueno in 1997.