Francisca Gomes Araújo Motta (May 18, 1940) is a Brazilian historian, pedagogue and politician, affiliated with the Republicans.

[9][10][11] Later, he returned to his studies through supplementary schools and then entered the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), where he completed his academic activities, graduating in History and Pedagogy.

[9] After the death of her husband Edivaldo, then Federal Deputy for Paraíba, at the age of fifty-two, she made her political debut in 1992.

[13] Affiliated to the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), she was a candidate for deputy mayor of Patos, on a ticket headed by the physician Ivânio Ramalho.

[19] In 2006 [pt], she was elected to her fourth term as a state representative in the Legislative Assembly of Paraíba (ALPB).

[43] She was also ordered to pay a fine of 25,000.00 reais, for the practice of prohibited conduct, consisting of the institutional promotion of her government on social networks, in violation of Law 9.504/97.

The electoral representation was presented by the Christian Labor Party (PTC) claiming that in July 2016, she used social networks to publicize government actions.