José Medeiros (PL-MT) Medeiros takes office and uses “gag” to protest lack of freedom| Photo: Reproduction/Advisory

Federal deputy José Medeiros (PL-MT) assumed his second term as a parliamentarian this Wednesday (1), using a gag in his mouth against the censorship imposed on parliamentarians by Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF). According to the parliamentarian, the act is a form of protest that Moraes is disrespecting the prerogatives of parliamentarians guaranteed in the Federal Constitution.

“A congressman without the right to speak, which is guaranteed by the Constitution, cannot fully represent the people of his state. Censorship is unacceptable,” said the deputy who has already had his social networks suspended twice by the minister of STF.

Medeiros still has his Twitter and Instagram profiles suspended by Moraes’ determination. At the end of last year, the parliamentarian presented a Bill that makes it a crime of abuse of authority, with detention of 1 to 4 years, the unjustified removal of a publication, page or profile on the internet of a deputy or senator. “A considerable and frightening number of judicial decisions were passed to determine the blocking or suspension of the profiles of deputies and senators for the simple fact of expressing, through the internet, their opinions”, he said.