An online undersigned, promoted by Federal Representative Erika Hilton (PSOL), a trans woman, calls for fellow MP Nikolas Ferreira (PL)’s mandate to be suspended for transphobia in a speech in the Chamber’s tribune on Wednesday, International Women’s Day. Ferreira wore a wig, said her name was “Deputy Nicole” and mockingly said she felt like a woman too.
“Today, International Women’s Day, the left said I couldn’t speak because I wasn’t in my place of speaking. So I solved this problem here. Today I feel like a woman. Deputy Nikole,” said the deputy, ardently Bolsonarist, while putting on a blonde wig.
According to the deputy of Minas Gerais, “women lose their space to men who feel like women who want to impose a reality that is not reality”. Even without the wig, he added that women “owe nothing to feminism”. “Take back your femininity, have children, love motherhood and form your family, that way you will bring light to the world and be brave”.
For Duda Salabert (PDT), deputy also for Minas Gerais, the suspension of the deputy mandate is “little”. “He must be arrested,” he continued. “A parliamentarian cannot use immunity as a shield to commit crimes, regardless of the political and ideological position of each of them. We must follow the view of the Brazilian Supreme Court, which recognizes transphobia as a crime that cannot be bailed. It is no better than anyone else, so you can’t use the stand to commit crimes, to make criminal, racist and transphobic statements.”
Arthur Lira, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, publicly scolded the deputy. “The plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies is not a stage for exhibitionism, let alone biased speeches. I will not tolerate disrespect towards anyone. Deputy Nikolas Ferreira deserves my public rebuke for his attitude”.
Nikolas Ferreira, just 26 years old, garnered a national record 1.5 million votes in October’s election, delivering a speech very close to that of Jair Bolsonaro, the second most-voted presidential suffrage
“I have dedicated my election to the Lord and I am reaping the fruits of a work that is not new. I mirror the strength of Bolsonaro who was alone in Congress for 27 years and today he is president,” said Nikolas Ferreira after the election. .
Born in the slum of Cabana do Pai Tomás, in Belo Horizonte, he says the victory shows “that young people can be conservative and not just think about the weekend and be a slave to their desires”.
In the Chamber of Deputies, he guaranteed “dialogue with everyone” because Congress is like “a giant classroom where you have to ask someone for a pencil because you forgot.” But don’t even think about an alliance with the other side: “I have no alliance with the left, with communists, they are cynics, liars”.
Nikolas surpassed by 400 thousand votes the second most voted deputy in the country, Guilherme Boulos, from PSOL, who ran for São Paulo, a more populous state, and is better known – he was a candidate for the presidency in 2018 and is considered Lula’s successor to Silva.
At the state level, Duda Salabert (PDT), the trans deputy who wants her colleague arrested, was the woman with the most votes in Minas Gerais. But Nikolas disagreed: “the woman with the most votes was Greyce Alias (Avante), if they change biology you give the title to another, until then: congratulations, Greyce”.
Nikolas says he was inspired by advice from his mother, Ruth Ferreira. “Beware of the left, for you are devoted to Christ,” she tells him. Regarding a possible marriage, Ruth asked her son to “note how a woman treats her mother and whether she keeps her nails well-groomed”.
The deputy only believes in sex after marriage as the Bible dictates, calling for “the defense of life from conception” and demanding “a man in a men’s bathroom and a woman in a women’s bathroom.”
During the pandemic, he was recorded as unable to visit Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro because he had no proof of vaccine, gaining admirers among Bolsonarianism.
On another occasion, he voted against the municipal proposal to name a health center in Belo Horizonte after Marielle Franco, the Rio councilor who was executed in 2018, calling her an “abortionist”. Then he suggested the name Brilhante Ustra, torturer of the military dictatorship, for the place.
Source: DN
