In Brazil's election year, women in politics denounce recurring threats
Parliamentarians draw attention to messages with insults and death threats
Written by
Luís Gustavo Moreira Carmo
Translated by
Edgar Velozo
Translation posted 3 October 2022 18:08 GMT
With the first round of the presidential elections on Oct. 2 approaching, cisgender, transgender, and travestis in women involved in Brazilian politics have been denouncing on their social media episodes of gender political violence, considered now an electoral crime in Brazil.
Messages of sexist, racist, and even Nazi-inspired references are among the threats that have reached councilwomen and congresswomen. The women have common affiliations to leftist or center-left parties and the shared defense of agendas linked to diversity and the fight against inequalities.
Duda Salabert
The most voted City Council member in the 2020 elections and the first transgender councilwoman in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Duda Salabert (PDT, Democratic Labor Party), denounced in early August that she received an e-mail with a death threat from a “neo-Nazi group that is present in forums and virtual environments.” The message also contained Nazi references, she says.
A police report was registered and, also in the networks, the councilwoman said that she had lost her job as a teacher:
Because of these Nazis I've lost my job last year, since they've sent emails to the school where I worked saying I would turn the place into a sea of blood, if I'd continued teaching there.
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https://globalvoices.org/2022/10/03/in-brazils-election-year-women-in-politics-denounce-recurring-threats/