Since the beginning of the year, the new President of Brazil, the right-wing populist Jair Bolosnaro is now in the office. Be the style of government calls the first famous victim.
The gay MP Jean Wyllys, Brazil has announced that, after death threats to resign and to massive criticism of the government triggered.
“If a fearless and courageous parliamentarians like the Deputy Jean Wyllys does not consider its presence in the country for sure, is not a threat to the democracy, but also deeply wounded,” said Brazil’s former President Dilma Rousseff on Friday on Twitter. The Human rights organization Human Rights Watch wrote on its website: “A voice of the LGBT-rights has been Silenced.”
Wyllys: renunciation of a third term in office under Bolsonaro-government
Wyllys had declared on Thursday in an Interview with the daily newspaper “Folha de S. Paulo,” that he will resign his post and leave the country, because he felt no longer safe.
to get His own life, is also struggling with a strategy for better days, wrote Wyllys on Thursday on Twitter. Wyllys of the party for socialism and liberty (PSOL) was elected in October.
In February, he should compete actually this is his third term in office. In the past, he had been repeated with the current President, Jair Bolsonaro to each other. Bolsonaro for his negative attitude towards Homosexuals known.
Rising violence against homosexuals in Brazil
That Bolsonaro was now President, is not the reason why he is leaving the country, so Wyllys in the Interview. Rather, the generally increasing level of violence against members of the Homosexual-, Bisexual -, and transgender community. This could, however, the open rejection of the President a huge boost.
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