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Brazilian parliament approves first penalty for gender-based violence

The Chamber of Deputies’ Council of Ethics and Parliamentary Decorum approved on Tuesday, 6 May, a three-month suspension of the mandate of Deputy Gilvan da Federal (PL-ES) for making offensive remarks against the Minister for Institutional Relations, Gleisi Hoffmann (PT-PR). The decision passed with 15 votes in favour and four against.

According to PT deputies Maria do Rosário (RS), Jack Rocha (ES), and Juliana Cardoso (SP), this marks the first time the House has penalised a parliamentarian for gender-based political violence, as Gilvan’s remarks were deemed offensive not only to Hoffmann but to all women who face daily attacks due to their gender.

The decision followed more than four hours of deliberations by the Ethics Council, which reviewed a request from the Chamber’s Board that initially called for a six-month suspension. However, the rapporteur Ricardo Maia (MDB-BA) proposed a three-month penalty. Gilvan stated he would accept the decision and not appeal.

Maia initially issued an opinion supporting the six-month suspension suggested by President Hugo Motta (Republicanos-PB), but cited Gilvan’s public apology and vow to change his behaviour—made during a plenary session on Monday night, 5 May—as a factor in reducing the penalty.

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Mais de 44 horas depois...

O povo brasileiro, para Bolsonaro, fazia 'mi-mi-mi'.

Fazia mi-mi-mi por sofrer na miséria, na fome na doença, na pandemia de Covid-19, quando cerca de 700 mil pessoas morreram por irresponsabilidade dele e de seus aliados. Bolsonaro está mostrando ao seu eleitor a sua verdadeira face e caráter.

Seu "conservadorismo", lema que o elegeu foi hipócrita. Quem preza a sua própria família, mas não preza os outros, não é uma boa referência para seu povo.

De novo, repetiu o jargão nazista, não falou nada sobre a gravidade do que os caminhoneiros que impediram o direito de ir e vir, impactando em diversos setores, até na aviação. Mas, o interessante dessa história por trás desse longo silêncio, disse que "os protestos devem ser pacíficos." NÃO.

Não deve haver protestos. Foi uma eleição limpa.

Se fosse um bom líder, como ele diz e convence os outros , um homem de alguma nobreza de espírito e responsabilidade, teria imediatamente aconselhado aos seus seguidores a descontinuação desses protestos, visto que se dão em função do seu governo, que ora não existe mais.

Ele não parabenizou o presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva como é o protocolo.

Desgastante. O que se viu em seu pronunciamento, sem dúvida, foi um papelão diante da nação, com assessores e militares visivelmente indignados com o resultado das eleições, nem puderam disfarçar.

A fala de Ciro Nogueira ao citar Gleisi Hoffman sobre haver sido informado por ela, que, Geraldo Alckmin faria a transição de governo; dando muxoxo entre um falso lapso ou suspiro, deixou claro que eles "respiram" esse péssimo presidente, abominável ser humano. São semelhantes no espírito. Homogêneos.

Foram os quatro anos mais longos que presenciamos. Nancy Pelosi entenderia. Tem-se uma versão tupiniquim de Donald Trump e para atenção dos que pensam, muitos de seus apoiadores foram eleitos.

O STF vai ter muito trabalho, provavelmente, mas dessa vez o povo está ligado, no primeiro sinal de fumaça, o PT põe a boca no trombone. E o povo também.

Ou no megafone. 📢

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Brazil's Workers Party slams Israel for holding Brazilians in Gaza

Brazil's ruling Workers Party criticized the Israeli government on Friday for not allowing 34 Brazilians to leave Gaza, saying Israel is playing favorites when deciding who should be allowed to evacuate the besieged Palestinian territory.

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen told his Brazilian counterpart Brazil's nationals would leave Gaza by Wednesday, a Brazilian foreign ministry spokesman said late on Friday.

In three days since the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt opened to allow nationals of other countries to leave Gaza, Brazilians waiting to leave were not on the list approved by Israel, despite diplomatic efforts to include them.

"For the third time, the Israeli government denied the departure of Brazilian citizens threatened by the massacre against the civilian population in the Gaza strip," Workers Party president Gleisi Hoffmann said in a social media post.

She said the Israeli government has not provided any explanation for what she said was discrimination. Brazil tried to find a negotiated solution to the conflict when it presided over the U.N. Security Council in October, Hoffmann said.

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Brazil’s ruling party criticizes Bolsonaro's meeting with Israeli ambassador

Israel’s Ambassador to Brazil Daniel Zohar Zonshine has been accused of meddling in local politics following his meeting with former President Jair Bolsonaro to watch a video of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, it was reported.

Workers’ Party Chairwoman Gleisi Hoffmann spoke on Thursday of a “spurious alliance” between the former head of state and the diplomat, which – in her words - “is even more repugnant because the safety and lives of Brazilian citizens” still waiting in the Gaza Strip to leave was at stake.

“Their manipulation of a conflict in which the actions of Brazilian diplomacy, guided by President [Luiz Inácio] Lula [da Silva] were directed from the beginning towards the construction of a peaceful solution, is totally condemnable,” Hoffman was quoted by O Globo as saying.

The ambassador has also been criticized by Justice Minister Flávio Dino for heralding the outcome of a Federal Police raid against members of the Lebanese Shiite militia group Hezbollah who were allegedly planning attacks in the South American country.

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Brazil’s Secretariat for Institutional Relations: ‘We won’t develop without agrarian reform’

Gleisi Hoffman (Workers’ Party) visited the MST’s Agrarian Reform Fair and met with parliamentarians and leaderships

The Minister of the Secretariat of Institutional Relations of the Presidency of the Republic, Gleisi Hoffmann (Workers’ Party), visited the 5th National Agrarian Reform Fair, in São Paulo, where she attended a breakfast moment offered by the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST, in Portuguese) to parliamentarians and political leaders.

On arrival, the minister said that agrarian reform is fundamental to the country’s social and economic development, and reiterated her support for the movement.

“[I must] say how important it is for us to show Brazil what agricultural production means in our country, peasant production and, above all, [agriculture] free of pesticides. So this is great propaganda for us about this production and, above all, the struggle to achieve agrarian reform in the country, the effort that has to be made. We won’t have economic and social development in Brazil if we don’t carry out agrarian reform,” Hoffmann said.

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Brazil's Secretariat of Institutional Relations Minister shows steady hand in congressional negotiations

Key lieutenant scored victories with unruly coalition but also misstep with Federal Supreme Court

Secretariat of Institutional Relations Minister Gleisi Hoffmann has reached the one month mark in her new role witha couple of victories, while also correcting missteps following a statement that created friction with Federal Supreme Court (STF) justices. She still faces a huge list of challenges, including preventing Congress from voting on a bill granting amnesty to those involved in the coup-related activities of January 8, 2023, and securing approval for a proposal to grant income tax exemption for those earning up to R$5,000.

Regarding the minister’s performance in these early days, a leader from one of the Centrão parties told Valor that she “has made a strong start: she approved the budget, and so far gives the impression of having a more direct channel [with the president] and legitimacy to commit on behalf of the president and the government.”

Similarly, another influential parliamentarian, also linked to Centrão, as the powerful centrist bloc in the Chamber is known, noted that Ms. Hoffmann has been showing more authority to speak on behalf of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. They pointed out that she was already widely acknowledged, as the Worker’s Party (PT) president, for honoring agreements, and one of her strengths is being straightforward with her interlocutors. “She is direct whether delivering good or bad news and does not lie,” they praised.

The former PT leader took office on March 10 amid concerns from some in the political class over the radical style she displayed as PT president. However, this distrust dissipated with her performance in her first month. “Those who know her well and remember her as the chief of staff [in the Dilma Rousseff administration] know she wouldn’t be [radical],” argued a person close to the minister.

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“Foi uma tentativa violenta de golpe. Não cabe anistia”, afirma Gleisi

"Não foi um ataque com batom, foi uma tentativa violenta de golpe de estado", disse a ministra

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Gleisi Hoffmann takes on Brazil's political coordination to help Lula’s bid for reelection

The new minister’s first challenge will be to prevent the Progressive Party from leaving the government coalition

Newly appointed Minister of the Secretariat of Institutional Relations (SRI) Gleisi Hoffmann takes office this Monday (10th) with the mission to assist President Lula in completing the ministerial reshuffle and expanding his political base, with an eye toward the 2026 re-election platform. From the outset, Ms. Hoffmann will need to manage the clash between the Brazil Union and the Social Democratic Party (PSD) over the Ministry of Tourism and prevent the Progressive Party (PP) from exiting the government coalition amid pressure from certain party factions to leave the governing base.

PSD leaders, speaking to Valor, expect to be summoned to the Planalto Palace this week to resume discussions about the party’s role in government. While PSD senators wish to keep Carlos Fávaro (PSD) in the Ministry of Agriculture, the party’s lawmakers are vying for the Ministry of Tourism, which is currently held by Brazil Union’s Minister Celso Sabino. The party also counts on former senator Alexandre Silveira, a close ally of party leader Gilberto Kassab, for the Ministry of Mines and Energy.

PSD deputies argue that the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture is too small for the party’s legislative strength and the number of votes they deliver on issues of interest to the Executive. Of the 44 members of their caucus, at least 37 are loyal to the government, representing over 80%. “More than the Brazil Union’s caucus,” noted a PSD legislator.

Another point raised is that the Brazil Union effectively controls four ministries. In addition to managing Tourism, Integration and Regional Development, and Communications, the party also oversees the Companhia de Desenvolvimento dos Vales do São Francisco e do Parnaíba (CODEVASF), which the center-right coalition leaders consider a “ministry” due to the agency’s size and scope of delivery.

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