Douglas Garcia
Garcia in 2018
State Deputy for São Paulo
In office
15 March 2019 – 15 March 2023
Personal details
Born
Douglas Garcia Bispo dos Santos

(1994-01-26) January 26, 1994
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Political partyRepublicanos (since 2022)

Douglas Garcia Bispo dos Santos (born in São Paulo on January 26, 1994) is a Brazilian former state deputy in São Paulo. He is affiliated with the Republicans. He was elected in 2018.[1] He is anti-communist and an ally of conservative president Jair Bolsonaro.

In the 2022 election, he obtained just over 24,000 votes and was not elected federal deputy, being without holding a public office as soon as his term ends in March 2023.[2]

Personal life

On April 5, 2019, the day after threatening to assault a transsexual who used the same bathroom as her mother or sister, Garcia admitted to being homosexual. On the tribune of the Legislative Assembly of São Paulo (ALESP), he stated: "It does not diminish in any way the flags that I have been defending here in the Legislative Assembly against 'gender ideology'".[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Deputado Estadual". www.al.sp.gov.br (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-06-23.
  2. ↑ "Deputado que tentou intimidar Vera Magalhães na TV é derrotado nas eleições". notícias.uol.com.br (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-12-27.
  3. ↑ "Deputado do PSL que atacou colega transexual assume ser gay". oglobo.globo.com (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-12-27.
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