Tensions ahead of Parliament session, Iris Luarasi: I will report the incident, let justice take action

Socialist MP Iris Luarasi has responded in a video to the tense situation that unfolded this Tuesday before the start of the plenary session, when several female protesters followed her as she was entering the Parliament building.

Luarasi said she would report the incident and that it would then be up to the justice system to act. According to her, insults cannot be considered protest, humiliation does not constitute activism, and violence does not change its nature even when it is carried out by women.

“When insult is dressed up as protest and verbal violence is sold as activism, what should the response be?? I choose to speak, without lowering my head, without losing my dignity, without insulting,” she wrote in a message published alongside the video recorded at Parliament.