Lawmaker denounced colleague for sexual harassment who groped her in the middle of the session

The event happened last December but the public complaint was recalled this week by the victim herself via her Instagram account. “Harassment is harassment! It does not matter whether it is moral, psychological, patrimonial or sexual, it is always a crime! “, Penna reported in this social network.

In the video captured by the enclosure cameras we can see how Cury squeezes his colleague from behind and touches her chest, and although the lawmaker tries to get rid of him quickly, the subject insists on groping her.

What gives someone the right to touch an intimate part of my body? My chest is intimate. It’s my body. I ask for the right to stand up and speak with the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly without being harassedPenna said in front of the House plenary.

And she added: “I am an elected member of Parliament with 53,000 votes, I fight for women’s rights, I fight against harassment. Just because I exist, I deserve respect. I have the right to be here without being touched ”.

The case was reported to the justice and legislative authorities, whose ethics commission will deliver its verdict in March, be able to move Cury from suspension to expulsion from the São Paulo legislative chamber.

The Cidadania party, to which Cury belongs, repudiated the incident and launched disciplinary proceedings. Formerly known as the People’s Socialist Party, it is about the transformation that Brazilian communism underwent after the fall of the Soviet Union.