Ana Paula Lobato

Ana Paula Dias Lobato Nova Alves is a Brazilian nurse and politician who has been a senator from the state of Maranhão since 2023. She assumed the position after the elected senator, Flávio Dino, became the Minister of Justice and Public Security during the second Lula presidency, and became the titular senator once he was nominated for the Supreme Federal Court. She had previously been the vice-mayor for the city of Pinheiro. She is currently affiliated with the Democratic Labour Party (PDT). As of 2024, she is the youngest senator in the Brazilian federal senate.