The president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), minister Cármen Lúciasaid on Tuesday (20), that he entered with a letter in the Ethics Committee of the Presidency of the Republic over a RACISM CASE involving the minister Vera Lúcia Santana de AraújoSubstitute of the court.
“I would like to start making public an occurrence endowed with great gravity and unhappiness,” said President of the Court. “One of the members of this court was the center of an unacceptable conduct of discrimination, racism, An unworthy treatment when she was attending an invitation, ”said the president of the TSE.
“I assume today the chairman of the Ethics Committee of the Republic to make formal science of the interlocutory appeal that can even be a crime.
The episode would have happened last Friday (16), when Vera Lúcia could not enter the 25th Ethical Seminar on Management, promoted 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.
Vera Lúcia was the second black woman to join the electoral court, appointed in 2023 by the president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT).
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 brought together 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. She adds that Jorge Messias, a lawyer-general of the Union, sent a letter sympathized with the affected minister and that he will “adopt measures to understand what happened.”
A CNN He contacted the Presidency of the Republic to comment on the case and awaits return.
Watch video of the speech of Cármen Lúcia:
