Regina on the video in which she is insulted: they think I don't look like a senator.

Piauí 247 - By order of the 8th Civil Chamber of the Court of Justice of the Federal District, the video in which journalist Joice Hasselmann uses the terms "riffraff," "idiot," "semi-illiterate," and "cretin" during a speech by Senator Regina Sousa (PT-PI), in the discussion of the impeachment of former President Dilma Rousseff in the Senate, has been reinstated on YouTube. In the first instance, the senator had obtained an injunction to remove the video from the air.

The senator was shaken by the decision and even cried on the floor on the day the decision was made public, last Tuesday (22). On the same day, Joice directed her segment “Sapatadas” to the senator, on the program “Os Pingos nos Is”, on Jovem Pan radio, and spoke again on Friday afternoon (25) regarding Regina’s speech, on the Senate floor, at the beginning of the week.

That day, the senator took to the podium to speak about the prejudice directed at her fellow countrywoman Monalysa Alcântara, recently elected Miss Brazil, who also experiences prejudice directed at her. The senator cried while speaking about the collegiate decision and stated that the interpretation was that the court also thought she was "riffraff, illiterate, and stupid."

Regina stated that the court's decision shows prejudice against her appearance and way of speaking. “It’s not about Regina Sousa. It’s about women, black women, women with 'kinky' hair… They don’t think I look like a senator. That’s prejudice. So, the Brazilian Justice system has to look at this with more care, with more zeal,” she told Congresso em Foco on Friday night (25).

With information from Congress in Focus