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SÃO PAULO, SP (FOLHAPRESS) – Lawyer Helio Bicudo, founder of the PT (Partido dos Trabalhadores) and one of the authors of the impeachment petition against Dilma Rousseff, died Tuesday at the 39, age 96 years. His body began to be veiled at 5 pm in São Paulo.
The health of the lawyer was fragile since 2010, when he suffered a stroke. He was even weaker in March of this year, when his wife, Déa Pereira Wilken Bicudo, died after 71 years of marriage.
A human rights activist, Bicudo gained national notoriety by condemning members of the death squad, a paramilitary organization of the 1970s.
In politics, the Lawyer was also a federal deputy of São Paulo. Paulo for two consecutive terms, from 1991 to 1999, and vice mayor of São Paulo, in the management of Marta Suplicy (then PT), from 2001 to 2005.
BIOGRAPHY
Hélio Pereira Bicudo was born in Mogi das Cruzes SP) on July 5, 1922, son of Galdino Hibernon Pereira Bicudo and Ana Rosa Pereira Bicudo
He joined the Faculty of Law of São Paulo in 1942, the same year that he began working in a cabinet of lawyers.
After being prosecutor and prosecutor, he was appointed in 1959 to head the Civil House of the Government of the State of São Paulo, under the direction of Carlos Alberto. of Carvalho Pinto (1959-1963). In 1963, he returned to the head of Carvalho Pinto's office when he became finance minister of João's government.
In 1963, Goulart temporarily occupied the position from September 27 to October 4.
Six years later, he was appointed by the College of Public Prosecutors of São Paulo to conduct one of his most notorious works: to investigate criminal activities by police officers. The police organization was known as the "Death Squad".
Bicudo denounced several members of the police, but his mission was canceled by the Attorney General in 1971, without the responsibility of most of the accused being erased. Bicudo, a target of threats during the investigation, received public support from the Archbishop of São Paulo, Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns (1921-2016).
In the book "My Testimony on the Squadron of Death" published in 1976 by the Archdiocese of São Paulo, Bicudo reports behind the scenes of the investigation and the role of authorities in the 39, interruption of processes.
Shortly after, he was one of the signatories of the Letter to the Brazilians, a document signed by jurists and intellectuals who defended the validity of the Law of the State of São Paulo. Rule of law and criticized the arbitration of the military dictatorship installed in the country in 1964.
PT
In 1980, with the end of bipartisanship in the country, Bicudo joined the PT, becoming the first Paulista deputy of the union. In 1982, he was deputy in the plate of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva who challenged the government of São Paulo.
With the victory of Luiza Erundina (PT) at the São Paulo City Hall, he took over the Municipal Secretary of Legal Affairs in 1989. The same year, shortly after the presidential election, he was entered into representation at the Supreme Electoral Tribunal against the elected candidate, Fernando Collor, on the grounds that he had lied during the campaign and abused economic power. In 1992, as a Member of Parliament, he voted in favor of the admissibility of the opening of the impeachment process of Collor.
Bicudo was elected to the Federal House in 1990, with nearly 100 thousand votes; He was re-elected four years later, with approximately 55,000 votes. In his parliamentary mandates, he introduced constitutional amendments proposing changes in the prison system and the police structure. One of his approved projects transferred to the joint court the trial of military policemen who were committing malicious crimes in the performance of their duties.
In 1996, he badumed the position of President of the Human Rights Committee of the Chamber of Deputies. His positions against abortion and sterilization in the public health system have made him a kind of spokesman for the Catholic Church within the PT
He became member, for a four-year term, of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, by the OAS General Assembly. He then chaired the commission from 1998 to 2001.
In 2000, he was elected deputy mayor of São Paulo on the plaque chaired by Marta Suplicy, which he will occupy until January 2005. [19659022ROMPIMENTO
In September of the same year, announced his departure from the PT – with names like Plinio of Arruda Sampaio, Ivan Valente and Chico Alencar – after the revelation of the scandal of mensalão, which culminated in the condemnation of the leaders of the party like José Dirceu and José Genoino. Unlike other dissenters, he preferred not to join other acronyms
in an interview with Folha de S. Paulo at the time, he said the PT s was removed from "ethical and moral ideals". He also claimed that he would no longer vote for Lula.
"From my point of view, the President of the Republic can not exonerate facts that occur in his administration and the facts are dishonest.The President can not ignore, make a reservation that 39, he is betrayed, and do nothing.There are mistakes by action and mistakes by default. "
In the 2010 elections, he declared support for Marina Silva (then in PV) in the first round and to José Serra (PSDB) in second.
"In an interview with Terra Magazine just before the second round, Bicudo explained their differences with petism."
"I think you have a democratic system," said Dilma Rousseff (PT), a Lula-backed candidate who is on the line as Dilma wins the elections. In fact, she says that she is Lula and Lula says that she is Lula. So, you will hand over to Lula the presidency of the Republic, "he said." Lula, as president of the PT, has canceled all the possibilities of emergence of new leaders, to be him alone. And he dominates the party to the point of imposing a candidate who is a new Christian in the party, so to speak. "
Bicudo returned to support the José Serra toucan, this time to the city of São Paulo, in the 2012 elections, won in
In September 2015, he presented to the Chamber of Deputies a request for indictment against the president
In September 2015, he presented to the Chamber of Deputies a request for indictment against the president.The document was also signed by the jurist Miguel Reale Jr. and the professor of law USP Janaina Paschoal
Bicudo claimed that Dilma committed a crime of responsibility, among other reasons for leaving, she mentioned the so-called "tax pedals", the federal government's maneuvers to defer payments and use banks to cover the debts.
"There was a makeup deliberately oriented to transmit to the nation to the international investors) the feeling that Brazil would be economically its in and therefore able to maintain programs on behalf of the most vulnerable clbades, "he writes.
The document also cites the operation Lava Jato and the purchase of Pasadena by Petrobras and said that by the federal police investigating the people close to the president, there was deconstruction of his "aura of competent professional and spotless, created by well-paid traders. "
A few days later, the" Roda Viva "(TV Cultura), Bicudo said that Lula was illegally enriched during his presidency.
" What has impressed me the most is the illegal production. Nobody talks about it, but I met Lula in a 40 square meter house. Today, Lula is one of the great fortunes of the country.
Maria do Carmo Bicudo Barbosa, the eldest son of the seven children, said that the father and son of Bicudo's children and his friends have been publicly criticized for their anti-lawyer "is in the full exercise of his mental faculties but he made a mistake. " "At this moment, the country needs a union to overcome the difficulties it encounters, not a demand for removal."
In an interview with Folha de S. Paulo, lawyer Dalmo de Abreu Dallari said that the application for dismissal against Dilma was illegitimate, without reasons. Dallari claimed that Bicudo has become an "absolutely obsessive" anti-tourist for reasons of personal resentment. He intended to be appointed to the post of ambbadador in Geneva and would have expressed this idea indirectly, but he was not received by Lula to express that desire.
On December 2, 2015, the Speaker of the House of Deputies, Eduardo Cunha (PMDB-RJ), he complied with Bicudo's request and triggered the impeachment process. On August 31, 2016, the Senate revoked the mandate of Dilma, and Michel Temer (PMDB) took office as President.
Dissatisfied with the country's directions, Bicudo defended Temer's resignation after the announcement that JBS businessman Joesley Batista and the president are dealing with a solution of "pending "with former federal MP Eduardo Cunha, arrested for corruption.
In recent months, Bicudo was working on the preparation of the book "Third Law" compilation of the impeachment application and speeches, as well as testimonials from friends. There is no date for the publication of the book.
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