New ministers in Lula’s government are betting on investing in public policies – News

01/01/2023 – 4:47 PM

The ministers appointed to integrate the government of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in the Chamber of Deputies, expressed their expectations regarding the new administration. In general, the candidates who spoke to Camara TV this Sunday (1), the day of Lula’s inauguration as President of Brazil for the third time, are confident that there will be investments in important agendas, such as regional development, the environment and science and technology.

One of the women who joined the new government, former deputy and former vice-governor of Pernambuco Luciana Santos, candidate for science and technology, showed “colossal expectations” and said that a “page of denial” would be opened in the country.

President Lula has already announced that he will hold a ministerial meeting at the beginning of the month. From the beginning, we have been working to live up to the trust that the Brazilian people have placed in our program and in our government,” stated Luciana Santos. We will use our collective intelligence and our work to put science and technology at the head of the country. We will turn the page on this denial, and science will once again become a priority in Brazil.”

He was appointed Minister of the Secretariat of Social Communication as a deputy Paolo Pimenta (PT-RS) The first day of the year made a difference, he said, as it was time to renew the expectations of the Brazilian people. “We see this crowd here in Brasilia, and it is largely due to the hope that life can improve, that the country can grow again, generate jobs, create opportunities. This is very much represented in the character of President Lula,” Pimenta stated.

Paulo Pimenta believes in the ability of the new government to restore Brazil as a champion on the international stage, with important agendas, such as environment and climate, anti-hunger policies and strengthening the economies of South America and different regions of the world. Brazil.

Parliamentary responsibility
Vice Alexander Padilla (PT-SP)who returned to fill the post of Secretariat of Institutional Relations, a position he headed between 2009 and 2010, in Lula’s second government, also stated that anticipation is the best possible.

He added that the National Congress, and especially the Council, showed a lot of responsibility at the end of the year, when it approved the so-called PEC transition. Also, according to its alternative, it is time for reconstruction, and the room will play an important role.

Reduce the waiting list
At the head of the recreated Ministry of Social Security in the new government Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the head of the PDT and former Minister of Labor, Carlos Lupe, announced that his first task at the head of the portfolio will be to reduce the queues of retirees, pensioners and BPC beneficiaries.

“We will make a joint effort to put the waiting lists in the Lula government’s first indications. A person had five days to get their favour,” Lupe said. “It’s not easy, there are more than 1.3 million people in queues across all sectors. We have to evolve.”

On recreating the portfolio, Carlos Lupe states that it is impossible for a country the size of Brazil, with some 36 million Social Security dependents, not to have a ministry that looks after those who helped build the nation, “and they are our pensioners and retirees.”

Food Safety
Appointed Minister of Agricultural Development and Family Farming as a deputy Paulo Teixeira (PT-SP) He talked about the need to rebuild public policies in the field of food security.

On the other hand, you have to have quick financing, because there are crops that can actually be funded. A large cropping scheme for family farming could be launched, along with technical assistance and public procurement. On the other hand, we will return with a family farming purchase program,” he said. The head of the portfolio emphasized that the country currently has 33 million people suffering from hunger.

imperator
Vice Marcelo Freixo (PSB-RJ)who has been chosen to head the Brazilian Agency for the Promotion of International Tourism (Embratur), said the focus will be on job creation.

“Tourism is cross-sectional, and in the 21st century there is great potential to generate jobs, income and development in line with what the world expects from Brazil. Brazil is the only one that owns the Amazon, and we still have not been able to develop climate and ecotourism that would allow people to get to know the Amazon,” he says. pointed out.

Reporting – Noelly Nobre and Emmanuel Brazil
Editing – Georgia Moraes