The São Paulo Regional Electoral Prosecutor’s Office denounced state deputy Wellington Moura (Republicans) for gender crime this Wednesday for having told deputy Monica Seixas (PSOL), that he would “always put a halter in his mouth” when he was presiding over the election. session and that he would do this “whenever he was president”.
The speech took place during a session at the Legislative Assembly of São Paulo (Alesp) on May 18. The Attorney General’s Office understood that the parliamentarian violated article 326-B of the Electoral Code, which provides for a prison sentence of one to four years for anyone who “harasss, embarrasses, humiliates, persecutes or threatens, by any means, a candidate for an elective office or holder of elective mandate, using contempt or discrimination against the condition of a woman or her color, race or ethnicity, with the purpose of preventing or hindering her electoral campaign or the performance of her elective mandate”.
“By saying so, State Representative Wellington de Souza Moura harassed, embarrassed and humiliated, persecuted State Representative Mônica Cristina Seixas Bonfim, curtailing her political and parliamentary performance. The accused belittled and discriminated against the victim, subjugating her, for being a woman, in her professional, parliamentary and political activities with the clear and willful and declared purpose of preventing and hindering the full exercise of her elective mandate: “I will always put a halter in your mouth,” he said,” said Regional Electoral Attorney Paula Bajer in the lawsuit.
She also stated that she “denounces State Deputy Wellington de Souza Moura for the practice of the conduct typified in Using contempt and discrimination for the victim’s wife status, denounced harassed, embarrassed, humiliated, persecuted State Representative Mônica Cristina Seixas Bonfim, a woman , with the purpose of preventing and hindering the exercise of the parliamentary elective mandate, practicing gender-based political violence”.
Sought, the advice of deputy Wellington Moura informed that he will defend himself in the case file.
See the complaint against the deputy:
Source: CNN Brasil
