With no senator elected, PSOL asks the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate Damares’ conduct due to the Yanomami crisis.| Photo: Fabio Rodrigues-Pozzebom/ Agência Brasil

The PSOL bench in the Chamber of Deputies filed this Thursday (9) a representation against Senator Damares Alves (Republicanos-DF) for “omission” and “prevarication” in assisting the Yanomami indigenous people when she held the position of Minister of Women, Family and Human Rights during the government of former President Jair Bolsonaro.

In the representation that requests the investigation by the Senate Ethics Council, the bench states that Damares practiced “an indecent act before the beginning of the mandate and known only after the beginning of it, conditioning it, however, to the verification that the previous conduct was unknown ”, says a note on the party’s website.

In the document, the party’s parliamentarians present documents in which the MPF (Federal Public Ministry) and international organizations notified the ministry about episodes of violence against indigenous people. “The crisis could have been avoided if, upon receiving the alerts, the then Minister had taken measures”, completes the note.

Luciene Cavalcanti (PSOL-SP), federal deputy, also calls for the “cassation of the former minister’s mandate”, and says that “at least 21 requests for help were made, ignored by the Bolsonaro government and by Damares, while the Yanomami indigenous people were dying of malnutrition and diseases such as malaria,” according to a post on twitter.

Damares Alves has not yet responded to the representation. PSOL did not elect any senators in the 2022 election.