The Vladimir Herzog Institute (IVH) filed on Wednesday (28) a representation in the Federal Ethics and Parliamentary Commission in which requests the conduct of senators Plínio Valério (PSDB-AM) and Marcos Rogério (PL-RO) during the hearing of the Infrastructure Commission held last Tuesday (27) with the Environment Minister, (Network).
The minister left the session after a chat with the senators, during which the chairman of the committee, Senator Marcos Rogério (PL-RO),. Before, Senator Plínio Valério (PSDB-AM) had said, “I’m seeing a minister, I’m not talking to a woman. I’m talking to the minister. Because the woman deserves respect; the minister, no. That’s why I want to separate.”
Plínio had already offended the minister in March when. “Imagine what it is to tolerate Marina 6 hours and 10 minutes without hanging it?” The senator said Marina’s participation in the NGO CPI audience.
In representation, the IVH states that such behaviors exceed the limits of the political clash and are incompatible with the institutional responsibility expected of Senate representatives. The action points out that “such conduct violates Article 2 of the Code of Ethics and Parliamentary Decorus of the Federal Senate, which requires parliamentarians compatible behavior with ethics and parliamentary decorum, and hurt the constitutional principles of human dignity (art. 1, III) and administrative morality (art. 37, caput)”.
“What happened at the audience with Marina Silva in the Senate was an absolute disrespect against a minister of state. A brutal climb of misogynistic prejudice and offenses, against women, and against someone who is admittedly an important leadership in the environmental issue, which today is not a problem with only Brazil, but from the planet,” said Institute’s CEO, Rogério Sottili.
According to Sottili, the Vladimir Herzog Institute “felt obliged to enter with a representation with Senate President David Alcolumbre, and the Ethics Commission, so that all measures were taken against Senators Marcos Rogério and Plínio Valério for the offenses they committed against a woman and minister of state.”
“It was an aggression, disqualification and intimidation to a public authority, not an exercise in divergence and the contradictory, which are part of the democratic debate,” he says. “This should not be acceptable and we hope that the Senate Ethics Committee will take the necessary measures to be aligned with the attempts of other institutions of the Brazilian State to resume the normal course of our democracy.”
For him, democracy defense organizations need to position themselves in the face of what they called the authoritarian climb and disrespect to institutions in Brazil. “Brazil is living a moment when, for the first time, attacks on democracy are being investigated and punished, with indictment of generals and a former president of the Republic. Congress reflects this authoritarian movement that the country is living. And there is an important portion of the democratically resisting congress.”
Sought, Senate President David Columbre did not return requests from the report until the closing of this text about the measures to be taken from the representation and the case itself. The space is still open.
