Former senator Rose de Freitas (MDB-ES) is employed as a parliamentary advisor in the office of the president of , (-AP), with a salary of R$31,279.53 plus meal vouchers of R$1,784.47 and time off.
She ran for re-election in 2022, but was (PL-ES). The former senator was hired in May 2023 (about three months after the end of her term) by the then president, (-MG), and maintained by Alcolumbre.
The former senator occupies the second highest commissioned position in the structure of the Senate presidency, below only the chief of staff.
Rose says she helps Alcolumbre by monitoring projects in commissions and ministries, mainly in areas with which she has affinity, such as the environment, municipalism and combating violence against women.
“I don’t work in the office itself, I go to the committees and, when I have a meeting that is important, I attend. My job is exactly that, to follow projects, to follow the agenda. I had great affinity in some areas in Congress. I worked with Rodrigo and now I work with Davi”, he said.
She adds that she spends around 20 days a month in Brasília and 10 in Espírito Santo, and that she passes information on to presidential advisors and the general director of the Senate, Ilana Trombka.
The Senate presidency stated that “the appointment fully complies with current legislation and public transparency standards, in accordance with the legal and regulatory criteria applicable to the filling of commission positions, under the terms of Law No. 8,112/1990, which governs the federal public service”.
In a statement, Pacheco stated that “the appointment of former senator Rose de Freitas, with due observance of the legality of the act, took into account her experience and her recognized capacity to perform the role”.
Rose was elected the first woman vice president of , in 2011. In 2015, as a senator, she was also the first woman to chair the powerful Joint Congressional Budget Committee.
Since 2017, some Senate employees have been exempt from electronic time recording and have their work frequency certified only by the chief of staff, without any additional controls.
The emedebista is not the only former senator without a mandate to obtain a position in the Senate. In 2019, Alcolumbre also appointed former senator Hélio José (Pros-DF) to the presidential cabinet. At the time, Hélio José claimed that he would help the president to communicate with other senators.
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