A leader of the LGBT movement has been exiled | Because of the threat …

Leftist MP Jean Wyllys, representative of the LGBT movement in the Brazilian Congress, announced yesterday that he was giving up his third consecutive term and choosing to exile, given the growing number of threats that he had been suffering since the election of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro.

"Preserving endangered life is also a struggle strategy for better days, we have done a lot for the common good, and we will do much more when the new time comes, no matter we do it in other ways" , the Socialist Party and Freedom MP (PSOL) wrote on Twitter.

According to the House information agency, Wyllys, 44, has not yet formalized his decision. But his opinion confirmed that the legislator had resolved to give up his third term and that he had left Brazil with the intention of staying "out of the country" for a while, without specifying the place of l & # 39; exile.

In an interview with the Folha newspaper of Sao Paulo, Wyllys explained that "it is not the election of Bolsonaro per se" that led him to resign from his third consecutive term, that 39 he will badume on February 1, but "the level of violence that has risen after the election" of the ex-military, strongly supported by ultra-conservative Pentecostal groups.

He gave as an example the increasing number of attacks and deaths of members of the LGBT community.

Last November, after the elections that led Bolsonaro to power, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) asked the Brazilian state to adopt "the necessary measures to protect the rights of the people. to the life and integrity of the person "of Wyllys. and his family.

In April 2016, during debates on the sacking of left-wing President Dilma Rousseff, Wyllys, MP for Rio de Janeiro, spat on the face of the MP for Bolsonaro at the time, after paying tribute to the notorious torturer of the time of the dictatorship. military (1964-1985).

The chamber's ethics committee condemned him to "written censorship", rejecting a motion to suspend him from his term for a month.

Wyllys is one of the ten elected deputies of the PSOL, the party of the badbadinated black adviser of Rio de Janeiro, Marielle Franco. A presumed bad and renowned for her advocacy for minorities and her criticism of police violence in the favelas, Marielle Franco was shot dead in March 2018 with her driver Anderson Gomes, in a case that has not yet been resolved. Since the murder of his co-religious, Wyllys lives under police escort. With the intensification of death threats, common even before the death of the councilor of Carioca, the deputy made the decision to leave public life.

"The former president of Uruguay, Pepe Mujica, when he learned that I was threatened with death, called me," Well, take care of yourself, martyrs do not. are not heroes, "that is to say: I do not want to sacrifice myself,

According to Wyllys, they also weighed in their resolve to leave the country with the recent reports that parents of a former prime minister suspected of leading a militia investigation of Marielle's death worked for the elected senator. Flávio Bolsonaro during his tenure as deputy of Rio de Janeiro.

"I love to know that the president's son hired the woman and the man-murderer in his office," says Wyllys. "The president who has always defamed me, who has always insulted me in an open manner, who has always used homophobia against me, this environment is not without danger for me", he added.

The national president of the PSOL, Juliano Medeiros, has confirmed that the position of Wyllys should be filled by the substitute David Miranda (PSOL-RJ), currently adviser in Rio de Janeiro.

After learning that Wyllys had decided to give up his term, Councilor Carlos Bolsonaro (PSC-RJ), son of Jair Bolsonaro, wrote on Twitter: "Go with God and be happy!" After his return from Davos, Switzerland, Brazil, the president put on the social network the message "Great day!".

Many netizens interpreted the message as a reference to Wyllys, but the president subsequently denied it, saying that he was referring to the mission concluded in Davos, around Brazil, and to the trust in the country indicated by the results of the Exchange. Substitute David Miranda came to write: "Respect Jean, Jair and keep your enthusiasm, one LGBT comes out, but another comes, and this comes from Jacarezinho, another who, in 2 years, has approved more projects than you in 28 See you in Brasilia "