Citizenship wants expulsion of deputy who participated in acts against Dino in the STF

Members of the national and Federal District executives of Cidadania presented a letter asking for the expulsion of district deputy Paula Belmonte from the party, for having participated in the act against the nomination of minister Flávio Dino to the Federal Supreme Court (STF), last Sunday (10 ), in Brasilia.

The letter signed by former senator and former minister of Lula Cristovam Buarque, national vice-president of Cidadania, and eight other members of the party, criticizes the deputy’s stance, associating her with supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro.

“Despite the positioning of the national leadership, Ms. Paula Belmonte acts in a diametrically opposite line, aggravated by the fact that she is the regional president of the party. She defends the January 8th coup plotters, imprisoned in the Papuda Penitentiary and who are being tried and sentenced; she publicly criticized the CPMI report from the National Congress and the rapporteur, senator Eliziane Gama; as a member of the district CPI, she tried in every way to attribute the attempted coup d’état to the elected government,” the signatories state.

For the signatories, “the last straw was Paula’s participation in an act against the appointment of Flávio Dino to the STF and which defended the impeachment of President Lula and Minister Alexandre de Moraes”.

The members of Cidadania published the letter, after seeing a video of the deputy, published on social media, where she appears participating in Sunday’s event talking to the people who were present and other parliamentarians.

A People’s Gazette contacted the deputy’s team to find out what will be done, but there has been no response yet.

Profile of the deputy

Businesswoman Paula Belmonte, affiliated with Cidadania, was elected as district deputy in the 2022 election, after having held the position of federal deputy in the legislature from 2019 to 2022, where she held the position of deputy leader of the party.

She operates on the right, but takes an independent stance and does not consider herself a supporter of former president Jair Bolsonaro. She also has a strong representation in the defense of the family, children’s rights and against corruption, in addition to defending tax reform and the end of privileges for politicians, such as forum prerogative and unlimited re-elections in the legislature.