For the Transparency Commission, these behaviors “not only do not preserve the dignity and credibility of the sovereign body Assembly of the Republic”, but also “they compromise the impartiality, impartiality and rigor in the conduct of work by the Bureau, in addition to affecting the duty of civility and the respect that is due between deputies”.
“Thus, the vice-president of the Board of the Assembly of the Republic, deputy Filipe Melo, incurred serious violation of the duties of deputies”reads the opinion, considering that “his unacceptable and unworthy behavior assumes special and accentuated gravity as it was committed in the exercise of his role as a member” of the parliamentary board.
The Transparency Committee states that, although Filipe Melo claimed, in a closed-door hearing, that had retracted his behavior“the truth is that At no time did he reveal regret or remorse for his inappropriate and inappropriate conduct, even though he admitted that he was wrong.”
The opinion states that not only did Filipe Melo not apologize “or regret his behavior”, but also “his conduct prior, contemporary and subsequent to the parliamentary hearing”, which took place on October 14, “demonstrates that there was no type of regret”.
The Transparency Commission thus urges Filipe Melo “to consider, in conscience, whether he has the effective conditions to continue exercising his functions as a member of the Board of the Assembly of the Republic”.
It also recommends Filipe Melo “to publicly recant, by presenting a formal apology before the plenary of the Assembly of the Republic, for the inappropriate conduct he had in the plenary session on September 25th”.
To this end, the commission suggests that the president of the Assembly of the Republic “may grant, at the beginning of the plenary in which the retraction is to take place and before the agenda scheduled for that session begins, adequate time for this purpose” to deputy Filipe Melo.
Deputy Filipe Melo also has another complaint against him with the Transparency Commission, from PS deputy Eva Cruzeiro who accuses him of shouting racist and xenophobic words at her.and which has also received a favorable order from the President of the Assembly of the Republic.