It declared it last Wednesday (23) the former senator () as political amnesty for acting as councilor by Londrina (PR) from 1969 to 1971 without remuneration, an instrument of to restrict political participation in the city councils.
The report on the request for without economic reparation made by Alvaro Dias was in charge of the counselor Rodrigo Lentz, who gave a favorable opinion to the election. The Political Annsty Declaration also allows you to recognize time counting for the purposes of retirement on public service and social security.
The military dictatorship lowered two institutional acts dealing with councilors’ compensation. Institutional Act No. 2 of 1965 determined that the councilors would not receive remuneration, “whatever the title”. Institutional act No. 7, 1969, established that only councilors of the capitals and cities with more than 300 thousand inhabitants would be paid – which was not the case with Londrina in the late 1960s.
Before giving the vote, the Amnesty Commission counselor cited the former senator’s political trajectory, who was already governor of Paraná and a candidate for the presidency of the Republic in 2018. He recalled that, before being a councilman, Álvaro Dias had already started political activity as a student representative
Lentz cited a statement from the politician last year at the 60th anniversary of the 1964 coup, in which days narrates his participation in the right now. “This shows how dictatorship also used institutional mechanisms as a form of political repression and political exclusion. Why, why do you remove the remuneration of councilors? Why did the dictatorship do it?”
“If the policy is restricted to those who have money, the policy will exclude the poor. So when we do not professionalize the policy, that is, when it is not a paid activity the elective position, who will occupy the elective position?
In Lentz’s assessment, the removal of councilors ‘remuneration was a dictatorship strategy to remove the workers’ movement from policy. “Then, indiscriminately, the remuneration of all councilors were removed and a political dike erected for the representation of the working class, which, of course, at the time, opposed the dictatorship.”
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