A Union Attorney General (AGU) sent, on Wednesday (21), an investigation request to the Federal Police (PF) for a case of racial discrimination Against the Substitute Minister of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) Vera Lúcia Santana Araújo.
The magistrate would have been initially prevented from entering an event promoted by Public Ethics Commission of the Presidency of the Republiceven after presenting a document that proved its performance in office.
“Upon arriving at the scene, after presenting the lecturer credentials and showing the functional portfolio as a substitute minister of the TSE, She was not allowed to join the scene and was destroyed by a surveillance agent“, Says the agency.” In the letter sent to the Federal Police, the attorney general of the Union requires maximum urgency in the determination of the facts, with the identification of those responsible and the adoption of appropriate legal measures, “he continues.
The movement happens one day after the president of the TSE, minister Cármen Lúcia, denounce the case during a session of the Electoral Court. The magistrate classified the episode as a “Unacceptable conduct of discrimination and racism”, He added that a letter was sent to her to the committee chairman, Manoel Caetano Ferreira.
Union’s general lawyer, Jorge Messias, had already warned the court that he would adopt “measures to understand what happened.”
In a statement released on Wednesday, the Presidency’s Public Ethics Commission sympathized with the case, but said the board “It does not have any administrative or managerial responsibility on the property where the fact occurred.”
“The hiring of surveillance and reception services is performed directly by the condominium responsible for the management of the building. AGU, in turn, only gave institutionally the space for the event,” said the statement.
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The episode took place last Friday (16), when Vera Lúcia could not join the 25th Ethical Seminar on Managementpromoted by the Public Ethics Commission of the Presidency of the Republic, to which he was invited, even after showing his functional portfolio that confirmed the position.
The ceremony was headquartered at the CNC Business Center National Confederation building in Brasilia.
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She has already been responsible for commanding the boards of the Palmares Cultural Foundation (FCP), the Federal District Support Foundation (Funap) and held the position of Deputy Secretary of Policies for Racial Equality of the Federal District.
According to Cármen Lúcia, Vera Lúcia who was scheduled to speak at the event, was prevented from starting. The seminar had as its theme “Prevention and confrontation of harassment and discrimination” and gathered about 600 people, virtual and in person.
Still during the speech, the minister said that her cutoff colleague was allowed to enter “after some measures”, managing to give the lecture.
