Alepe – Legislative Assembly of Pernambuco – rejected on Tuesday (17) the creation of the Parliamentary Front for LGBT Citizenship. To be installed, the front needed 25 votes in favor, but several deputies were absent and hampered the vote.
During the session, 15 of the 49 deputies were absent, 23 voted in favor and 10 voted against. In other words, there were only two votes left for the front to be installed.
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With deputies Lucas Ramos, Aloíso Lessa, Teresa Leitão and Priscila Krause as members, the front intended to bring together parliamentarians to combat prejudice and discrimination against the LGBT population, through debates, hearings and events.
"The defeat was not of the LGBT population, but of the House, despite the vote having 23 votes in favor. Regrettably, many deputies were absent, shying away from holding the debate. We will systematically study what the mechanisms are to create a space specifically to debate these demands, which are urgent and necessary", said the author of the request Edilson Silva (Psol).
The pastor Clayton Collins (PP), who is leader of the evangelical group, declared that he does not need an LGBT front, since the Commission for the Defense of Citizenship and Human Rights already exists. "These are important issues, be it LGBT, minorities, majorities. We are going to call on the movement to come into this house, they have not lost rights," he declared.
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Tereza Leitão stressed that dealing specifically with the LGBT population is not a matter of privilege, but of paying attention to a group that has "throughout history suffered moral persecution and needs affirming policies". "We cannot mix the secular state, provided for in the Constitution, with our faith. What is being proposed are public policies for a stigmatized sector."
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