Keiko Ota

Iolanda Keiko Miashiro Ota (born 28 September 1956), better known as Keiko Ota, is a Brazilian politician. She has spent her political career representing her home state of São Paulo, having served as state representative from 2011 to 2019.[1]

Keiko Ota
Ota in April 2015
Federal Deputy for São Paulo
In office
1 February 2011 – 31 January 2019
Personal details
Born (1956-09-28) 28 September 1956
Olímpia, São Paulo, Brazil
Political partyPSB (2009–)

Personal life

Ota's father is Nio Miashiro.[1] She is of second generation Japanese descent.[2] Ota is married to local politician Masataka Ota, and the couple have three children: Ives, Ises, and Vanessa. In 1997, Ives, who was only 8 years old at the time, was kidnapped and murdered by one of Masataka's body guards, leading Ota and her husband to campaign against violent crime in Brazil.[3]

Political career

Ota voted in favor of the impeachment motion of then-president Dilma Rousseff.[4] She would later vote in favor of opening a similar corruption investigation against Rousseff's successor Michel Temer,[5] and voted against the proposed 2017 Brazilian labor reforms.[6]

References
  1. "KEIKO OTA – Biografia". Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  2. "KEIKO ARTICULA EVENTO PARA 110 ANOS DE IMIGRAÇÃO JAPONESA" (in Portuguese). 18 September 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  3. Iunes, Ivan (15 May 2011). "Mandato político para fazer justiça após a morte do filho" [Political mandate to do justice after the death of the son] (in Portuguese). Correio Braziliense. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  4. "Reforma trabalhista: como votaram os deputados" (in Portuguese). Carta Capital. 27 April 2017. Archived from the original on 9 April 2012. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
  5. "Veja como deputados votaram no impeachment de Dilma, na PEC 241, na reforma trabalhista e na denúncia contra Temer" [See how deputies voted in the impeachment of Dilma, in PEC 241, in the labor reform and in the denunciation against Temer] (in Portuguese). O Globo. 2 August 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  6. "Como votou cada deputado sobre a denúncia contra Temer" (in Portuguese). Carta Capital. 4 August 2017. Archived from the original on 9 April 2012. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
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