This morning (12), the presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva met with community leaders in Rio de Janeiro. During the meeting, Lula received a copy of the People’s Plan for Complexo do Alemão, a project that was discussed in the community and which brings together proposals for the population living in the area. 
“We need to change this story that the state only participates in the community when it sends the police here to beat someone. We want the police to be a public policy component of the State. Before the police come, education has to come, health has to come, culture has to come, people’s lives have to be improved”, Lula said in Complexo do Alemão. a national conference of the people of the favelas for us to decide public policies for the favelas”.
After speaking at this meeting, Lula took part in a walk through the streets of Complexo do Alemão with the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes. The candidate reaffirmed that he intends to create a ministry of indigenous peoples and that he will appoint an indigenous person as minister. He also said he will recreate the Ministry of Culture. “And we are going to strengthen the ministry of racial equality to end, once and for all, prejudice in this country,” he said. The candidate also promised that there will be no more illegal mining in the country.
From Rio de Janeiro, Lula went to Salvador (BA). At 4:20 pm, he and Jerônimo Rodrigues (PT), candidate for the government of Bahia, attended to the press at the Vila Velha Theater, before heading for a walk through the Bahian capital. Lula did not respond to questions from journalists, but said he intends to implement a progressive tax policy. “We will have to make a correct tax policy. It is not possible for a worker who goes to buy a kilo of beans to pay the same tax that the president of Santander pays on those beans. There needs to be a progressive tax policy and whoever earns more pays more. That is why we are proposing that [quem ganhe] up to R$ 5 thousand will no longer pay Income Tax, they will be exonerated”, he said.
Lula also mentioned that today is Children’s Day and regretted that many of them did not even eat on that date. “I wonder how many kids got up in the morning without having a coffee to drink. And I’m not even going to say about the gifts. How many millions of children today, on Children’s Day, will go through Children’s Day without receiving a single souvenir because their father or mother cannot give it? It is this country that we want to change,” she said.
