Vera Lúcia Salgado

Vera Lúcia Pereira da Silva Salgado (born 12 September 1967) better known as Vera Lúcia is a Brazilian politician affiliated with the Unified Workers' Socialist Party. She has contested elections many times, including the 2018 Brazilian presidential election, but has not been elected to public office.

Personal life Salgado grew up the youngest of 10 children, in a poor Afro-Brazilian family in the state of Pernambuco. In her youth she worked in the shoe making industry, and became involved in trade unionist organizations as a result of the companies taking advantage of their workers.

Salgado has been the PSTU candidate for mayor of Aracaju in the last four elections, with the best result coming in 2012 where she received 20,241 votes, or 6.6% of the valid votes.