Office: | State Deputy for São Paulo |
Term Start: | 15 March 2019 |
Term End: | 15 March 2023 |
Birth Name: | Douglas Garcia Bispo dos Santos |
Birth Date: | 26 January 1994 |
Birth Place: | São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil |
Party: | Republicanos (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]
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]