The first lady, Da Silva, said on Friday (8) that the country and defended mobilization to prevent representatives from giving up the positions due to gender political violence.
“We will not have the power to vote laws that definitely import and that reach our lives directly, if we no longer have women in Parliament,” he said in an event on diversity promoted by Rio de Janeiro.
“And we know the political violence that women suffer in that place. Whether in, state assemblies or chambers,” he added. “We have to make women not give up on it.”
At the event, called the energy of them, Petrobras invited authorities and civil society representatives to discuss business policies and strategies to expand female presence in government companies and spheres.
One of the guests, the Minister of the TSE (Superior Electoral Court) Edilene Lôbo recalled that women represent only 17.7% of and 7.5% of the city councils.
“In the judiciary, only 6% are black women,” he said. “Democracy will only be legitimate, it will only be authentic when black women occupy the place they represent.”
Organizer of the event, Petrobras has the first time of women in its board. Of the nine directors, including the president, Magda Chambriard, five are women.
In a speech, Magda recalled a law sanctioned by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva who guarantees 30% of vacancies in state -owned board councils to women. At Petrobras today, from 11 counselors, nine are men.
President Lula (PT), Janja’s husband, was criticized for the high resignation rate of women, and not (Supreme Court) in the two occasions he had to choose new ministers.
“I still don’t know what fear these men have from 50/50,” said Janja, referring to the law. “We want, we need the places of decision and power to have equal spaces between men and women.”
Specialists heard by Sheet In a report in May they claim that gender political violence in the country records worrying level, despite recent advancement on the subject in the legislation.
In the House, the agency’s Secretariat of Women stated that 63 reports of gender political violence were received from the agency from 2013 to May 2025, a number considered well below the occurrences by the country that affect the municipal, state and federal spheres.
There are cases of policies such as, which left public life and cited gender violence as one of the reasons. She had been a candidate for vice president on the plate with () in 2018 and was a federal and state deputy, as well as a councilwoman from Porto Alegre.
Nevertheless, the data indicate that men are still a majority among victims of political violence in the country – partly explained because they are also a majority among politicians.
UNIRIO survey on showing that men were 71% of those affected. The election recorded a record number of cases: it was at least 338 from July to September last year.
