After becoming known for her viral videos, councilor Amanda Vettorazzo (), national coordinator of the (Movimento Brasil Livre), says she can vote in favor of projects that she considers positive for .
“Of course, I believe that I won’t agree with most of what comes. But if something comes along that’s good, I can also vote. There’s nothing like ‘oh my God, it’s from the PT so I’m not even going to read it’. This fight cannot be just ideological, it has to be about proposals”, he states.
The young woman promises moderation in her actions and states that she wants to “remove this quarrelsome face” that she has built up in front of almost 1 million followers on Instagram. She admits to having “had to shout” to get noticed and get into office, as she campaigned with just R$5,000 in 2020.
Vettorazzo identifies herself as an independent councilor — that is, who should not follow all the agreements made by the council —, but denies being part of: a group of newly elected right-wing influencers who promise more heated clashes in the plenary.
“It doesn’t need to be independent and noisy. But, if we need to, of course we’ll make noise”, she responds. “We will try in dialogue, but for example, if there is a public policy that all schools will have trans presentations for little children, it doesn’t matter, I will make noise”, he adds.
In her first session, on January 1st, the councilor abstained as the first secretary of the Board of Directors of the House. It did not fulfill, therefore, the agreement that has been repeated for several years between the mayor’s base () and the PT, which, in return, helped to elect .
The , with three of its seven councilors voting against the PT name and signaling that there may be greater difficulty for Nunes in obtaining consensus in this legislature. In the more Bolsonaro wing are the influencer, the pastor and the Cuban woman.
Vettorazzo claims that she did not participate in the shouting in the plenary that day, when her colleagues on the right and left-wing parliamentarians exchanged shouts of “Lula the thief and “no amnesty” for a few minutes. She says she didn’t know what to do and was paralyzed.
On that occasion, she went around the councilors and obtained the 19 signatures necessary to file a CPI (Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry) to investigate the invasions of homeless movements in the city. The proposal is the same as another by Pavanato, which also obtained signatures.
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