Alexandre Frota, on leaving the transition group: ‘They attacked my children and my wife’

One day after announcing his departure from the transition group in Culture of president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), actor and federal deputy Alexandre Frota (PROS-SP) told the F5 who decided to step away from the team due to attacks that her three children [Mayã, Enzo e Bella] and his wife, Fabiana Rodrigues, suffered on the hammocks and in public places.

He does not give details about the perpetrators of the threats or their content. But he assures that they were sufficiently frightening for him to ask for the hat even before starting work on the transition. “I don’t mind pressure and I’m used to criticism, which has always been a mixture of envy, cowardice and evil. Nothing scares me, but attacking my family? What is that?”

Since Tuesday (22), when his name was announced by the elected vice president, Geraldo Alckmin, among the members of the group, Frota has been criticized by artists and people linked to national culture, who said they did not feel represented by the actor. and former supporter of Jair Bolsonaro.

The list of dissatisfied people who went public to protest against Frota’s “summoning” is long. José de Abreu said he considered the invitation “a disrespect to the category”, and Pedro Cardoso, Agostinho from “A Grande Família”, thickened the broth: “Catastrophic error for the culture and for the country to give relevance to an amoral and intellectually disqualified person like Alexandre Frota.”

Another who spoke out against the name of Frota was the writer and philosopher Marcia Tiburi. “His presence in the transitional government’s cultural area shames cultural agents and the entire community linked to the countryside. To err is human, however, one should not remain in error”, she posted on her social networks, tagging the profiles of Lula and Alckmin.

Drica Moraes, Astrid Fontenelle, Zezé Polessa, Malu Galli, Zélia Duncan, Dadá Coelho and historian Lilia Schwarcz also took a stand against Frota’s appointment to the transition team.

Not that the deputy has passively accepted the criticism. On the contrary. He countered the two and, in the early hours of this Friday (25), when it was after four in the morning, he made a personal attack and below the belt line to José de Abreu, bringing to light an old family tragedy of the actor of “Mar do Mar”. wilderness.”

In his defense, Frota said that he did not run after any nomination and that, if that happened, it was because he deserved it. “I never thought of working in the Lula government and I didn’t expect the invitation, but I have several projects in the cultural agenda. I am a co-author of the Aldir Blanc and Paulo Gustavo laws.”

Federal deputy and boyfriend of presenter Fátima Bernardes, Túlio Gadêlha (Rede-PE), expressed solidarity with the actor, and hinted that the inclusion of his name on the list would have caused jealousy among colleagues in the artistic class. “Fleet, comrade, I’ve been following this movement. I think you did the right thing. It came out great. Many artists who weren’t called up were bothered by your nomination. I regret that these attacks have reached the personal sphere.”