PSOL files representation against Damares over Yanomami crisis

Yanomami crisis

Sigla alleges that while she was a minister, she perpetuated “death policy”

Brasilia DF) – The PSOL group in the Chamber of Deputies wants Senator Damares Alves (Republicanos-DF) to respond to the Senate Ethics Council on the humanitarian crisis experienced by the Yanomami. This Thursday (9) the acronym, which did not elect any senator, filed a representation against the parliamentarian in the Council of Ethics and Parliamentary Decorum of the House.

According to the document, signed by the president of the party, Juliano Medeiros, while he was in charge of the Women, Family and Human Rights portfolio, in the government of former president Jair Boslonaro, Damares used the public machine to promote an “ethnocidal and racist” policy. against indigenous peoples, especially the Yanomami.

“Instead of promoting an articulated action in defense of life, he acted with disregard and lack of measures to protect indigenous peoples, it is necessary to open the disciplinary process and, at the end of the process, the revocation of his mandate”,

says the representation.

The document, which contains several attachments of photos taken in the Yanomami Indigenous Land (TI), also points out that the minister perpetuated, together with the former president of Funai, Marcelo Xavier, and the former president Jair Bolsonaro, a “policy of death” .

If the denunciation is accepted and advances in the collegiate, the foreseen penalties range from disciplinary measures – such as warning, censure and temporary loss of mandate –, to the most severe: the loss of mandate.

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The Senate Ethics Council has not met since before the covid-19 pandemic. Board positions are vacant. It is up to the president of the House, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), to install the collegiate and to the leaders of the party blocks, to indicate its members.

Until that happens, representation stalls on the board. Once installed, the president of the collegiate is the one who decides whether or not to follow up on the complaint. Before that, it is customary to request an opinion on the case to the Advocacy General of the Senate.

*With information from Agência Brasil

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