Minister stated that criticism of the first lady can be “retaliation” by Gleisi’s appointment to institutional relations
The Minister of the Environment, came out in defense of the first lady Janja da Silva, this Friday (14.mar.2025), after the president’s wife (PT) ter On Thursday (13.mar).
On your official Instagram profile, Marina that the situation was “deepened as retaliation for appointment ” minister of the Secretariat of Institutional Relations,
“It is inadmissible for people to use social networks not to the democratic exercise of critics, which would be legitimate, but to display their machismo and misogyny without any ethical filter, common sense or respect for people’s dignity.”wrote to Marina.
The minister also argued that gender political violence is “Denunciated, fought and severely punished”since, according to her, “Seeks to delegitimize and silence women in the public sphere.”
Marina stated: “Social networks are spaces of expression, but they cannot be free territories for the dissemination of violence and impunity”.
Finally, the Minister of Environment also stressed that violence will not “shut up” Janja and Minister Gleisi, who has been criticized by the government’s opposition since 4th (12.mar) for a Lula’s speech. During the event, the petista said he chose a “Beautiful Woman” to improve the government’s relationship with Congress
“We follow together, because occupying spaces of power is not concession, it is right that the harsh feathers have been conquered”said Marina on Instagram.
Read in full the whole text of the Minister of the Environment:
“My total solidarity with, which has been the target of a coordinated persecution campaign, which was already announced before but intensified further by structural machismo, disrespect and wide misogyny of opponents – linching parliamentarians. A campaign perhaps deepened as retaliation for the appointment of the Minister of the Secretariat of Institutional Relations ,.
“It is inadmissible for people to use social networks not to the democratic exercise of critics, which would be legitimate, but to display their machismo and misogyny without any ethical filter, common sense or respect for people’s dignity. Not satisfied, they go further: slander, defam and threaten the country’s first lady. If you do this with her, imagine what these people are able to do with women in general, work environments, in party spaces, in their public and private relationships.
“Gender political violence, which seeks to delegitimize and silence women in the public sphere, needs to be denounced, combated and severely punished. We are not facing legitimate criticism, but attacks based on historical exclusion patterns, which associate female presence in power with a “error” that must be corrected with disqualification, hatred, threats and intimidation for women to withdraw from the political scene.
“Social networks are spaces of expression, but they cannot be free territories for the dissemination of violence and impunity.
“But I’m sure this will not shut up, Gleisi and many other women who have weight, strength and voice in the president’s government . We follow together, because occupying spaces of power is not concession, it is right that the harsh feathers have been conquered. ”
