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Sessão Ordinária 24/02/2026

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A councilor repudiates a court that acquitted a 35-year-old man for raping a 12-year-old, calling it naturalized pedophilia.

1. This is the ordinary plenary session number 3 of the Câmara Municipal de Esteio, Rio Grande do Sul, held on February 24, 2026, covering legislative routine and three controversies of public interest. 2. The session features multiple councilors including Amaral Negrito, Fábio Neumann, Leo Dahmer, Eliezer Machado, Welter, Luciano Batistella, Claudio Duzic, and Fernando Luz; Arlindo Dias, retiring Secretary of Works after 25 years, was present and honored. 3. The session's underlying tension is whether municipal institutions hold accountability—over courts, public money recipients, and internal procedural authority—consistently and fairly. 4. The chamber president noted the regular amplifier burned before the session and thanked Gabriel for improvising a sound system, and acknowledged the Secretary of Works Arlindo Dias attending his last session before retirement after 25 years. 5. Councilor Amaral Negrito described garbage collection management failures on Camões and Quaraí Streets, distinguishing between citizen littering and management decisions to leave bags at street corners where dogs and waste pickers tear them before collection. 6. Amaral Negrito cited Senator Paim's APL 3253-2019, which would formalize the gari profession with a 30-hour maximum work week, a national minimum salary of R$1,500, annual wage adjustments, 10-40% hazard pay, and mandatory professional training courses. 7. Information request 13-2026 from Leo Dahmer asked the executive to provide interest rates, repayment timeline, total installments, grace period, and monthly payment amounts for a new R$20 million municipal loan contracted with Caixa Econômica Federal. 8. Multiple requirement requests were submitted to Corsã for infrastructure repairs: closing a block on Guimarães Rosa Street 258, repaving damaged sections on Tricampeão do Mundo Street 390 in São José neighborhood, and uncovering a manhole on Camões Street. 9. Councilor Amaral Negrito presented Motion 11-2026 repudiating the 9th Criminal Chamber of the Minas Gerais Tribunal of Justice for acquitting a 35-year-old man accused of raping a 12-year-old girl, on the grounds the relationship was 'consensual.' 10. Amaral Negrito noted the acquittal directly contradicts Brazil's Criminal Code and Sumula 593, which sets 14 as the threshold for consent; the penalty for rape of a vulnerable person ranges from 8 to 15 years. 11. He revealed that the rapporteur judge who authored the acquittal is under investigation for sexual abuse himself, and that the only dissenting vote on the panel came from its sole woman member. 12. Councilor Eliezer Machado used the Great Expediente to present a solemn session proposal honoring public servants on October 28 (Public Servant Day), framed in part around honoring Arlindo Dias on his retirement after 25 years of transit signage work beginning in 2001. 13. Machado then addressed Wallace Palhares, president of the Niterói Academy School, who received R$1 million in public funds for a carnival parade, delivered a result that earned a downgrade, and subsequently replied to the chamber's repudiation motion with language the councilor declined to read aloud, instead projecting it on screen. 14. Councilor Claudio Duzic marked the 94th anniversary of Brazilian women's suffrage—February 24, 1932—connecting successive exclusions from the vote (women, illiterates, Black people, disabled people) to contemporary calls on social media to exclude evangelical voters. 15. She tied the women's suffrage anniversary to the earlier rape acquittal, arguing that the absence of a woman among the majority judges illustrates the structural cost of underrepresentation in institutions. 16. Councilor Fábio Nilma criticized the session president for accepting an emergency motion for Arlindo while rejecting two of Nilma's providence requests submitted the same morning, arguing the rule should apply equally. 17. The session president defended suspending the session for Arlindo's homage as a presidential prerogative for exceptional circumstances, and reiterated the Monday 5pm deadline rule for all requests. 18. The session ended abruptly after Councilor Eliezer Machado's speech, with requests for personal explanations denied and a procedural argument about whether the president had agreed to a different running order. 19. The session format was procedural with brief discussions on most items; the most engaged debates were on the rape acquittal motion and the Great Expediente speeches. 20. Listeners interested in Brazilian municipal politics, judicial accountability, women's rights, or carnival funding controversies in Rio Grande do Sul would find substantive content here.

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