According to the project of parliamentarian Antonio Brito (PSD-BA), there are 31 black and 91 brown federal deputies in the Chamber, i.e. only 24% of the 513 deputies in the Chamber.
The Chamber of Deputies approved, with a symbolic vote, the project that creates the black bench. The measure was negotiated by black lawmakers to give greater prominence to racial issues in the House. Now the text must be promulgated by the president Arthur Lira (PP-AL) to be included in the internal regulations.
The proposal, reported by Antonio Brito (PSD-BA), establishes that the black bench will have a representative in the leaders’ college – a group made up of leaders of all parties in the House and which decides which projects will be voted on. Additionally, the group will have five minutes, allocated to leadership communications, to speak in plenary.
The college will be made up of parliamentarians who declared themselves black when registering their candidacy for the elections. The group will have a general coordination and three vice-coordinators chosen on November 20th of each year by absolute majority of votes. According to the project, there are 31 black and 91 brown federal deputies in the Chamber, or only 24% of the 513 parliamentarians.
“This gesture is not against anyone, this gesture is the demonstration that we cannot see only men and women of color having an electoral fund for a party nor a PEC Amnesty for parties that do not respect [cotas]. We want to see black men and women make up this House and honor our country.”said the Bahian parliamentarian.
The TSE (Higher Electoral Court) ruled in 2018 that parties must reserve at least 30% of the fund’s resources for women and black candidates (which includes black and brown people, a classification adopted by the IBGE).
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— Chamber of Deputies (@camaradeputados) November 1, 2023
Source: Terra
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