The candidate for the Presidency of the Republic by the MDB, Simone Tebet said this Tuesday (13) that she will recreate the Ministry of Public Security to stop organized crime. The candidate also defended the importance of affirmative actions and quotas in her management.
For Tebet, “the poorest face in Brazil cannot continue to be that of a black woman from the Northeast” She highlighted that the scenario of diversity and equal opportunities must be a central goal for the public power. “And that can only be done through education,” she said, on a visit to Salvador.
The candidate toured the Liberdade region and went to the Ilê Aiyê Cultural Association, formed from the first Brazilian block composed of Afro-descendants. In the Yoruba language, Ilê Aiyê means “black world”. The group was created in 1974 by residents of the Curuzu neighborhood.
Simone Tebet stated that the visit to the Bahian capital aimed to make commitments in the fight against structural racism and inequality. “This is a Brazil that definitely needs to be for everyone and for everyone,” she said. “It cannot be the country where the biggest victim of violence is the young black man from the favela on the periphery.”
In Campina Grande, in the countryside of Paraíba, Simone Tebet stated that the Northeast region has “great potential”, including tourism. The candidate visited the Center for Strategic Technologies in Health (Nutes) of the State University of Paraíba (UEPB) and then took a walk through the streets of the Monte Castelo neighborhood.
“What we need is political will, help from the federal government, to be able to make these regional potentialities, since each state has its particularity, bear fruit in the form of employment and income for the population of the Brazilian Northeast”, he declared. “What can’t be is a region as rich as the Northeast to have the worst human development indices. This is a lack of political will. Here we are able to generate solar and wind energy”.
