The Attorney General of the Union (AGU) released this Friday, 4, opinion that will guide the performance of the spouse of the presidents of the Republic. The document was made at the request of the Lula Civil House after criticism of spending involving the first lady Rosângela da Silva, Janja.
The AGU recognizes that the spouses are entitled to “public interest” acting and says that its function must be voluntary and unpaid. And that there must be the provision of travel accounts and use of public resources related to the spouse and their team.
The opinion recommends the disclosure of the public commitment agenda on an official website, as well as the expenses and trips through the Transparency Portal.
“The president’s spouse, in his performance of public interest, presents his own legal nature that stems from the civil bond maintained with the head of state and government. Thus, the spouse plays a symbolic representative role of social, cultural, ceremonial, political and/or diplomatic in the name of the president,” says AGU.
The text says that the performance of the spouse is based on the principles of public administration – legality, impartiality, morality, publicity and efficiency. It provides for the analysis, on a case by case basis, “the eventual incidence of constitutional or legal restriction on access to information, in situations where there is a need to safeguard the security and/or intimacy of the presidential spouse”.
The opinion should guide the performance of the first lady Rosângela da Silva, Janja, whose presence in international events and lack of transparency in the spending of her team have been the subject of criticism.
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THE Estadão It showed that the government disbursed R $ 203,600 to fund the stay of the Janja entourage in Paris. The first lady, which does not hold official position in the federal government, was representative of Brazil at events such as the Paris Olympics and the G-20 summit.
Last month, Janja was also in Rome, Italy, to attend the event by the International Agrarian Development Fund (FIDA), as a collaborator of the Ministry of Social Development (MDS). The airfare and return airlines of the first lady, which flew from Brasilia executive class to the Italian capital, cost the taxpayer R $ 34.1 thousand.
The first lady gave up traveling to New York last week to head the Brazilian delegation and speak in the United Nations (UN) as representative of Brazil. The Lula government organized the participation of the first lady with the leader of the entourage to be sent by the country to the 69th session of the Commission on the Situation of Women (CSW). Behind the scenes, the fall of popularity of Lula and Janja herself weighed on the decision.
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Without a formal position to represent the government institutionally, Janja has found it difficult to work in an area where she becomes familiar, the social agenda. In March, the Minister of Institutional Relations, Gleisi Hoffmann, argued that Janja has a “honorary position” in the Lula administration. In your assessment, it is “injustice” what is done with the first lady in relation to requests for information about your agenda, and attacks.
As showed the EstadãoDespite having no formal position in the government, Janja, in practice, has a team of at least 12 people at their disposal. The group includes a press officer, photographers, social networking experts and a military man as an orders.