The Council of Ethics and Parliamentary Decorum of the Legislative Assembly of São Paulo (Alesp) has already received ten representations asking for the removal of the mandate of state deputy Arthur do Val (Podemos), known as Mamãe Falei.
Upon receipt of all representations, the nine deputies that make up the council will be communicated, and Arthur do Val will be notified. The deputy’s conduct could be investigated by the statements considered sexist that he gave in an audio sent to friends after leaving Ukraine. The audio went viral on social media.
The representations against Arthur do Val must be processed by the Ethics Council for a period between 30 and 40 days. At the end of the process, the deputy may be acquitted, warned or even temporarily or permanently lost. The loss of mandate, whether temporary or permanent, will need to be voted on in plenary.
Podemos, the deputy’s party, opened internal disciplinary procedure against him.
Arthur do Val went to Ukraine amid the conflict in the country and even posted a photo on social media, in which he would be helping to produce cocktails. molotov to fight Russian soldiers. Upon leaving the country, on the border with Slovakia, the deputy sent an audio to friends, praising the beauty of the refugees. He then stated that he intends to return to Eastern Europe and said that women are “easy” because they are poor.
“As soon as this war is over I will come back here. And detail, they look. And they are easy, because they are poor. And here my Instagram letter, full of subscribers, works great. I didn’t catch anyone, we didn’t have time, but I glued on two groups of mines and it’s unbelievable how easy it is”, he said in the audio.
Upon arrival in Brazil, the deputy gave interviews confirming that he was the author of the audio and withdrew his pre-candidacy for the government of São Paulo. He acknowledged having made “a mistake in a moment of excitement”.
“That’s not what I think. What I said was a mistake in a moment of excitement. The impression I get here is that I got there, there were a lot of people, and I said: ‘who wants to come with me, I’m going to buy something’. It’s not that. I went to do one thing, I sent an unhappy audio and the impression that passed is that I went to do something else”.
THE Brazil Agency sought the deputy’s advice today (7th) to discuss the representations that reached the Ethics Committee, but so far he has not received a response.
