Arthur do Val

Arthur Moledo do Val (born 21 August 1986 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian politician, activist member of Free Brazil Movement, YouTuber and entrepreneur. In the 2018 Brazilian general election, he was elected State Deputy of São Paulo as member of Democrats (DEM), being the second most voted with 478,280 votes, after Janaína Paschoal. do Val ran for mayor of São Paulo in the 2020 election. He is a defender of mostly classical liberal ideas and uses his channel MamãeFalei on YouTube to spread political news and opinions among his followers, which are more than 2.5 million subscribers. In 2022 he announced his run for governor of the State of São Paulo, but withdrew after he had private audios leaked to the public in which he made sexually explicit comments towards female Ukrainian refugees while on a visit to a refugee camp during the Russian invasion. In one audio he stated “they are easy because they are poor”. He resigned his state deputy seat on April after the legislative assembly voted for starting the process of his removal. The Legislative Assembly concluded the process in favor of his removal, making him ineligible to run for office for 8 years.