Deputy goes to court against disclosure of profiles of ministers on government social networks

State deputy Felipe Camozzato (Novo-RS) filed a lawsuit in Federal Court against alleged illegal posts by Lula government ministers on social networks. In the document, the parliamentarian stated that “12 ministers disclosed their personal profiles through the official accounts of the ministries, with the posts shared on Instagram”. Camozzato argues that the “posts violated Article 37 of the Federal Constitution and, in particular, the principle of impersonality”.

“The contents are clearly intended to promote the ministers, associating their image with the deliveries of the Public Power. A clear example is the case of the Minister of Development and Social Assistance, Family and Fight against Hunger (MDS), Wellington Dias, who recurrently associates his image with Bolsa Família”, said the deputy, in a note.

In February, the deputy presented a popular action to the Justice questioning publications made by the federal government. In the action, he also argued that the posts did not respect the “principle of impersonality” and asked that the government be prohibited from using “Lula government” in official communications. In early March, the government removed from the air posts that cited the expression “Lula government” to refer to the federal executive.

In the new action, he requests “the granting of an injunction for the suspension of the harmful acts, in order to oblige the Defendants to refrain from new publications in official channels of ministries and other state bodies in collaborative modalities and that promote the profiles of people natural persons who, as political agents, head the ministries”.

In addition to Dias and the Union itself, the parliamentarian mentions ministers Paulo Pimenta (Secretary of Social Communication); Carlos Fávaro (Agriculture); Rui Costa (Civil Staff); Margareth Menezes (Culture); Silvio de Almeida (Human Rights); Anielle Franco (Racial Equality); Alexandre Silveira (Mines and Energy); Aparecida Gonçalves (Women); Sônia Guajajara (Indigenous Peoples); Alexandre Padilha (Institutional Relations); and Daniela Carneiro (Tourism).