Federal District Adviser Resigns Over Law Creating 'Victims of Communism' Day

Overview

• The law was sanctioned on October 21 and published in the Federal District’s official gazette, adding June 4 to the DF calendar.
• Authored by Deputy Thiago Manzoni (PL), the measure passed the local legislature by 16 votes to 5 in late September.
• June 4 was chosen to reference the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in China.
• The statute allows public authorities to organize activities in the week of the date to reflect on harms attributed to communist dictatorships.
• In his resignation letter, Bartolomeu Rodrigues cited victims of Brazil’s military regime such as Vladimir Herzog and Honestino Guimarães, and Ibaneis Rocha responded tersely that the resignation was his problem with no immediate successor announced.