While the Chairman referred to the cost of the measure to justify his decision, the laws of the legislation are mobilized to override the leader.
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In recent weeks, we could believe Jair Bolsonaro Assagi. Since his abortive attempt by “counter-coup d’état” in early September, the president of Brazil kept the head low, avoiding cautiously controversy and insults drawn from gusts, of which he is customary. But a new controversy launched by his care takes up today. And unworthy many Brazilian.
In cause: the veto posed on October 7 by Jair Bolsonaro on several points of a bill allowing the free distribution of buffers and sanitary napkins with the poorest young students in the public system. An absolute necessity, in a country where, according to the NGO GIRL UP, one in four teenager does not have any protection during the period of his rules. The shame then felt pushes many of them not to go school during their menstruation, sometimes missing up to several weeks of class a year.
To end this Calvary, a bill, baptized “Protective and Health Promotion Program” was adopted by the Congress in mid-September. It had to benefit 5.6 million young women, including students from popular environments, but also for women without shelters and held in prison.
“I am the slave of the laws”
Carried by thirty members, the project seemed to be consensus. But it was not counting with Jair Bolsonaro. Relying on the cost of the measure (84.5 million Reais per year, or 13 million euros), the latter opposed an end to parliamentarians. “I am the slave of the laws: I can not promulgate one thing if there are no sources of income [to finance it]. I would then be subject to liability crime and should answer immediately immediately “, justified the Head of State on October 11th.
The decision did not surprise anyone. Mr. Bolsonaro never did mystery of his misogyny. His own Laura daughter, born as a result of four boys, would be the fruit according to him a Fraquejada, a “moment of weakness”. MP, he seriously insulted one of the colleagues (“I will not violate you because it does not deserve”) and justified the behavior of business leaders deciding to pay more men than women. “[A mother who has just given birth] only works five months over a year!” He explained in 2014.
The presidential veto despite everything triggered a wave of indignation. A hashtag #Livreparamentruar (“free to have its rules”) circulates online in Brazil and among the diaspora. On October 10, in Paris, dozens of buffers were hung on the facade of the Embassy of Brazil in protest. “In what a century do we live? (…) Until when our girls will be deprived of studies?”, Went out of the famous singer Preta Gil. The presenter Rafa Brite has treated the president of “crappe”.
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