Tarcísio government does not reveal who pays for the secretary’s trip – 05/09/2023 – Panel

The Tarcísio de Freitas government (Republicans) did not respond to questions from the Panel about who is bearing the costs of the trip to Switzerland for Sonaira Fernandes, state secretary for Policies for Women, where she is participating in an event that proposes to “teach biblical principles in spheres of government around the world”.

The state administration also did not say what expenses were involved in the trip, such as tickets and lodging.

From the 6th to the 10th of May, Sonaira will participate in the “Uniting our Nations and Reconciling”, of the Ministry of Parliament and Faith, founded in 2009 by the Argentine pastor Luciano Bongarrá.

The objective, as described by the pastor himself in interviews, is to take “the message of the Lord” to those in positions of authority.

“Parlamento e Fé wants to establish in each Congress, each municipality, each place, each city hall in the world a man of God so that he can transmit the transforming message of Jesus Christ”, says Bongarrá, in video.

According to the decree that authorized the removal, published in the State Official Gazette on May 3, the secretary will make the trip without prejudice to salaries and other advantages of her position —that is, without salary deduction.

The column asked the government of São Paulo what expenses (airfare, food, accommodation), who is paying for it, what is the relationship between the content of the event and the activities of the Sonaira portfolio and whether the idea of ​​spreading the teachings of the Bible does not collide with the principle that the government has to be secular.

In a note, the press office of the Secretariat for Policies for Women said that Sonaira will be one of the speakers on the panel on Human Rights at the conference and that “she will present the public policies of the State for the prevention and fight against domestic violence, the health of the women and female entrepreneurship.”

“The event is a public policy forum and brings together leaders from different countries to discuss solutions and exchange experiences on public management, in line with the objectives agreed within the scope of the United Nations”, he adds.

The event’s program is composed mainly of presentations by pastors, such as David Hausmann, from Switzerland, Ben Hur, from the USA, and Juan Bongarrá, from Argentina, and can be seen here.

Evangelical, Sonaira is close to Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP), with whom she worked, and her political activities are aligned with the values ​​of Bolsonarism. On social media, she has already written that “feminism kills more than wars and diseases” and is “the great genocide of our time”.

In recent years, as councilwoman of the capital, she presented projects to prohibit racial quotas in public and private institutions in the city of São Paulo and for biological sex to be the only criterion for the participation of athletes in competitions in the municipality, thus excluding transgenders from sports disputes.

Other projects of hers include banning the creation of unisex bathrooms in the city, the use of neutral language and teaching about “gender ideology” and sexual orientation in schools. None of them were approved.

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