RenovaBR, a group founded in 2017 by businessman Eduardo Mufarej with the support of other representatives of PIB to teach policy courses to potential candidates, reached the 2022 election with 18 students elected to positions in the Legislative Assemblies and the Chamber of Deputies. One more chair than in 2018.
Looking at the results of the congressional election that came out of the polls this Sunday (2), Mufarej says he sees deep marks of imbalance and inequality.
Part of them are the institutionalization of the secret budget, clientelistic and physiological measures, in addition to the size of the electoral fund with unfair and arbitrary distribution.
Mufarej believes that the polarization of the presidential race has reached the Legislature. “No wonder, PL and PT [partidos de Bolsonaro e Lula] set up the two biggest stands.”
In the words of the businessman, the country is going through a profound moment and must rethink its governance. According to him, the results reveal that Brazilians do not want moderation and dialogue.
“This increases the responsibility of RenovaBR’s work. Despite these adversities, in just four years, we made it possible to increase the participation of more qualified people available to Brazilians. We left a volume of just over four million votes in 2018 and reached 6.8 million votes this year”, he says.
Of the 18 elected, seven are federal deputies and eleven state representatives affiliated to 12 different parties and nine states. In terms of gender and race, according to Mufarej, 39% are women and 39% are black, brown or yellow.
“I have the confidence that they will practice the legislative exercise following the values ​​they learned at Renova. At the same time, we feel obliged to mention the large number of excellent candidates who got along the way, often in an attempt to bring ideas, while polarization dominated the elections. In this field, Brazil lost”, he says.
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