Businessman Jader Filho (MDB-PA) said this Tuesday (3), upon taking office as head of the Ministry of Cities, that rebuilding the Minha Casa, Minha Vida program is a priority for the Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) government. .
He stated that the president asked that popular housing have balconies. “[Lula] He says that the program has to bring dignity, help reduce the country’s inequalities”, declared Jader.
“It’s not because the person needs government support that you can receive any work, of low quality. On the contrary, we have to offer the best possible to the Brazilian people”, said the new minister.
The Lula government has R$10 billion reserved for the housing program in the 2023 budget.
In his inauguration speech, Jader Filho said that the Lula government will not limit private investment in sanitation. He stated that public management will act in places where the private sector is not interested in investing, such as in small municipalities.
Later, speaking to the press, he said that the new government is yet to assess whether it proposes changes to the sanitation framework.
“The sanitation framework needs to be done with dialogue. This issue is established in part by what the private sector will do, as well as the public sector. There are areas that the private sector is not interested in, there is where the public sector has to be “, said the minister.
“There doesn’t have to be any prejudice on one side or the other,” he declared.
The Minister of Planning, Simone Tebet (MDB), and leaders of the same party participated in Jader Filho’s inauguration, such as former president José Sarney (MA), senators Renan Calheiros (AL) and Marcelo Castro (PI) and former -senator Romero Jucá (RR), one of the main organizers of the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff (PT) in 2016.
The event also brought together militants from social movements for housing, who supported Lula on more than one occasion, such as the MNLM (National Movement for the Fight for Housing), the MLB (Movement to Fight in Neighborhoods, Villages and Favelas) and of the MTST (Movement of Homeless Workers).
The new minister said he is open to dialogue with social movements. Jader Filho stated that the new management will list the housing works that are at a standstill, and resume the construction of lane 1 of Minha Casa, Minha Vida, aimed at the poorest.
The inauguration also marked the expansion of the clan led by Senator Jader Barbalho (MDB-PA), father of the minister, who also has another son, Helder Barbalho, as governor of Pará. The mother of the new minister, Elcione Barbalho (MDB-PA), is a federal deputy.
Jader Filho said that his management will be marked by “reconquests in the social area” and that it will be necessary to “rebuild” the Ministry of Cities.
The folder was recreated with the dismemberment of the Ministry of Regional Development. Another part of the portfolio structure that existed in the government of Jair Bolsonaro (PL) became the Ministry of Integration and Regional Development.
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