State Representative Renato Freitas (PT) lost the right to speak in the sessions of the Legislative Assembly for 30 days, and will not be able to preside any internal commission of the house for the same period – it.
The punishment, which began to be applied on Monday (18), was imposed by the Ethics Council of the Assembly, which understood that the petista incited protesters who invaded the house in June 2024.
Freitas has been revoked twice while he was a councilman of Curitiba. He was accused of breaking parliamentary decorum by participating in the occupation of a church during a protest against racism. The deputy has also been the target of Alep.
The deputy says there is persecution and is being censored. It also states that it will seek judicial measures to try to suspend punishment. Last week, Judge Jorge de Oliveira Vargas, from the Paraná Court of Justice, gave an injunction in favor of the petista. But the Assembly appealed and the president of the TJ, Judge Lidia Maejima, upheld the decision of the Ethics Council.
“The withdrawal of the effectiveness of disciplinary administrative decision […] It causes injury to public order for transmitting the improper sense of interference and impunity, “wrote the magistrate in an order signed on Sunday (17).
Punishment is the result of a disciplinary process opened from representations filed by state deputies Delegate Tito Barichello (União Brasil) and Ricardo Arruda (PL). They say Freitas took advantage of their prerogative as a parliamentarian to facilitate the access of protesters who invaded the assembly. Both defended Freitas’s cassation.
In June last year, APP-Sindicato, an entity that represents education workers, commanded a protest against one that allowed companies to assume the administrative management of public schools.
The demonstration ended with confusion in the assembly, with broken glass doors after the crowd forced the entrance to the house.
By the time the protesters already occupied the plenary galleries, Freitas would have given them words.
The petista denies that he urged the invasion and says he remembers that he interacted with the protesters in the galleries when the plenary of the house was empty, without face -to -face session, and the demonstration was peaceful.
“The speeches made by the represented show a clear encouragement of the protesters within the Assembly, in an attempt to make it unfeasible not only to hold the vote, but the very exercise of parliamentary debate,” said state deputy Marcia Huçulak (PSD), rapporteur of the case in the Ethics Council.
“While other deputies, including members of their own subtitle, sought to compose a solution and preserve the institutionality of the legislative process, the represented adopted a antagonism stance, stimulating the worsening of the crisis,” she continued.
During disciplinary proceedings, Freitas stated that he was not related to the persons identified by the police investigation that investigated the invasion. “None of these people are me, it’s not part of my office or my circle of friendship, and I don’t even know them,” he said.
“I only informed the protesters about the procedure regarding the vote of the school outsourcing project. And this, of course, cannot and should not configure any crime, otherwise it would be to limit, censor and criminalize parliamentary performance,” he said.
The deputy said that the punishment will harm his work at the head of the house’s racial equality commission, which discusses the expansion of quotas in competitions for black and quilombola population.
