From 2015 to 2025, 71 women had their mandates revoked or were subject to impeachment proceedings in 19 units of the Federation. The data are from the survey “Threatened Women in Brazil: from femicides to revocations of mandates (2015-2025)“, released this Wednesday (June 3, 2026) by the Instituto E Se Fosse Você, at Alesp (Legislative Assembly of São Paulo). According to the research, the volume of cases registered a strong increase from 2019, the beginning of the (PL) government.
In 2015, there were no records of this type. The first case recorded was in 2016, with the impeachment of the then president (PT).
In 2023, the year the new legislature took office in , there were 11 cases. The record was recorded in 2025, with 30 episodes.
Councilors are the main victims: they represent 73% (around 7 in 10) of the congresswomen attacked. State, district and federal deputies account for 20% of the incidents.
The report points to the phenomenon as a backlash —term from the feminist movement to classify an organized reaction against the advancement of women’s rights.
Almost half (40%) of the congresswomen who had the legitimacy of their mandate questioned are affiliated with the PT or Psol. The authors of the revocation requests are mostly right-wing and center-right parties (70%), such as PL, União Brasil, PP, PSD and MDB. Cisgender men — whose gender identity corresponds to their biological sex — represent 78% of aggressors.
“This data suggests that the incidence of attacks is not only directed at gender conditions, but also at political positions and publicly assumed gender agendas”says the study.
“This asymmetry suggests that the impeachments respond to structured patterns of political-ideological hostility against progressive women, often orchestrated by conservative groups. It is worth highlighting that the PT appears in the data both as the party of some victims and, to a lesser extent, as an agent in intra-party conflicts”says the document. According to researchers, women who challenge local political hegemonies due to ideological position, opposition or generational renewal are the preferred targets of this institutional violence.
This text was by Brazil Agencyon May 4, 2026. The content is free for republication, the source is cited, and was adapted to the Poder360 standard.
