Councilor Luisinho do Espigão (PSDB) made a blunder during the penultimate session of the year of the Viamão City Council, in the Porto Alegre metropolitan region, Rio Grande do Sul. During the December 18 session, the parliamentarian invited the former governor of the state, Leonel de Moura Brizola, who died in 2004, to participate in a tribute.
Luisinho do Espigão, who chaired the session, announced the filing of a motion at the Leonel de Moura Brizola Agricultural Technical School, an institution that bears the name of the former governor. However, when talking about the school, the advisor was wrong and called Brizola to join the board.
“I ask Councilor Jonas Rodrigues (PL) to welcome Mr. Leonel. Is Mr. Leonel de Moura Brizola in the Chamber? I invite you to participate in the Council,” he declared during the session.
The person who joined the board of directors, however, was a representative of the technical school, received by councilor Jonas Rodrigues. After presenting the motion, Councilor Marcos Antonio Borrega (PDT), author of the tribute, took the floor to praise the educational institution.
In the report, Luisinho do Espigão said that the plenary session took place at an atypical moment, because the President of the Chamber at the time had been designated by the Court to temporarily assume the mayorship of Viamão.
“That is why I assumed the presidency of this Legislative Chamber at that time, beginning to direct the work of the Board of Directors. Due to the exceptional progress of the session and the large number of tributes planned on the agenda, I ended up, through a strictly protocolary error, only mentioning the name of the late union leader, when it would be correct to call the representative of the educational establishment honored,” he declared.
Who was Léonel Brizola
Born into a modest family in Cruzinha, a small town near the city of Passo Fundo (RS), Leonel de Moura Brizola was one of the most important figures in Brazilian politics of the 20th century. He served as mayor of Porto Alegre, state deputy, federal deputy and governor of two states – Rio Grande do Sul and Rio de Janeiro – in addition to running twice for the presidency of the Republic.
Having a strong influence on the formation of the identity of a part of the Brazilian left, Brizola challenged the military regime and led the Campaign for Legality, a movement which guaranteed the inauguration of João Goulart to the presidency in 1961. Political heir of Getúlio Vargas, he worked as a shoeshine boy and elevator operator before entering politics definitively.
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