‘I want to say that I am suspending the hunger strike, but we are not suspending the fight against the secret budget,’ said the parliamentarian
The federal deputy (PSOL-RJ) decided to suspend the hunger strike on Thursday (17), after conversation with PSOL parliamentarians and supporters. The decision was made after dialogue with the president of, Hugo Motta (Republicans-PB), who promised to postpone the voting of the parliamentary in plenary for the second half. “I mean I’m suspending the hunger strike, but we are not suspending the fight against the secret budget,” said Glauber. According to the parliamentarian, he will now begin the period of transition and recovery.
Glauber began the hunger strike on April 2 after the Ethics Council vote for his cassation by 13 votes to five. During this period, he was sleeping in the plenary of a commission of the House and making only the intake of water, saline and isotonic.
Earlier, before Glauber’s statement, Motta said he will give 60 days to vote Glauber’s revocation in the Plenary if the Constitution and Justice Commission (CCJ) takes advantage of the process. “I guarantee that, after the CCJ’s deliberation, whatever it is, we will not submit the case of the deputy to the plenary of the House before 60 days so that he can exercise the defense of his parliamentary mandate,” said Motta.
The process was opened in 2024 due to the episode in which Glauber expelled influencer Gabriel Costenaro, a member of the Brazil Livre Movement (MBL), from the house to kicks. At the time, Costenaro hinted at the former mayor of Nova Friburgo Saudade Braga, who was sick at the time. Mother of the deputy, she died 22 days after the incident.
PSOL already has the appeal ready, which will be presented to the CCJ next Tuesday (22), deadline. According to Deputy Sâmia Bomfim (PSOL-SP), the document will argue, among other things, the suspicion of the rapporteur of the case in the Ethics Council, Paulo Magalhães (PSD-BA), and the disproportionality of the penalty. Magalhães – who asked for the revocation of Glauber – has also assaulted a person in the chamber and was not punished.
The incident occurred in 2001, when journalist Maneca Muniz launched, in the corridor of the commissions of the House, a book called the open veins of carlism, where he detailed Antonio Carlos Magalhães corruption scandals, uncle of the deputy. The parliamentarian, who at the time was PFL (which became DEM and now is União Brasil), drew a clothesline where they were exposed excerpts from the work and kicked off in Muniz, which retaliated with a punch.
*With information from Estadão Content
Posted by Carol Santos
