Requião has already vetoed the anti-bullying law.
The senator, who claimed to have been harassed by a reporter from Band TV, vetoed a bill against school violence when he was governor of Paraná.
247 - This Thursday's edition of the newspaper O Globo exposes the contradictions of Senator Roberto Requião, who claimed to be a "victim of bullying" when asked about the special retirement pension of R$ 24 he receives as a former governor of Paraná. In 2007, Requião vetoed a bill by Representative Douglas Fabrício, of the PPS party, that would have authorized the creation of a state program to combat bullying.
"I found it very strange that Senator Requião, with his imposing demeanor and immense size, would complain about bullying. How can he claim to be suffering from bullying if he was against combating bullying in Paraná?" argued the congressman.
Approved by all committees and the full Legislative Assembly, Douglas Fabrício's bill was drafted when the issue was just beginning to be discussed in Brazil.
"I wanted to put Paraná at the forefront of this issue, starting the discussion on this subject," he explained on Wednesday.
But, to the congressman's disappointment, then-Governor Requião vetoed the proposal on December 24, 2007. The allegations were that the project was "contrary to the public interest," without further explanation, and that the state Department of Education already had equivalent programs in the Violence Prevention Group and in Sociology classes.
- In fact, he vetoed it because I was in the opposition. He came up with those arguments, just as he could have used any other - summarized Douglas, who informed that he has already resubmitted the project this year and hopes that it will be sanctioned by the current governor Beto Richa (PSDB).
Read below the report published by 247 on Wednesday, regarding Requião's statements:
At the same time that the Journalists' Union of Brasília filed a complaint with the Senate against Senator Roberto Requião (PMDB-PR), who yesterday took a reporter's recorder and erased its memory disk, the parliamentarian went to the podium to say that he is a victim of "bullying" - the fashionable English word that means harassment and violence by a stronger person against a weaker one.
"I think this is the right time to resolve this problem and put an end to the abuse, to this real bullying that we Brazilians, whether parliamentarians or not, suffer at the hands of a press that is often absolutely provocative and irresponsible," Requião said in his speech.
Yesterday, while interviewing Requião, reporter Victor Boyadjian, from Rádio Bandeirantes, asked about the R$ 24 pension that the senator receives as a former governor of Paraná. Claiming to have been provoked, Requião took the reporter's recorder.
The National Association of Newspapers (ANJ) criticized Requião's attitude. "Condemnable in any citizen, the obstruction of the free exercise of journalistic activity was aggravated in this case by the fact that it came from a public figure, in total disagreement with the most basic norms of civility and democratic coexistence," says the organization's president, Francisco Mesquita Neto.