Dilma Rousseff tells Mano Brown about the day she tore money

Childhood memories were part of Dilma Rousseff’s (PT) interview at Mano a Mano in the early hours of this Thursday (28). In the podcast, which is in its second season on Spotify, the former president talked about her father, mother, religiosity and the beginning of her political trajectory.

In a conversation in which she called Mano Brown dear, darling, my son and my love, the former president said that, in her childhood, she tried to share a bill of money with a poor boy who appeared at the gate of her house, in the Employees neighborhood. , in Belo Horizonte.

The boy asked for food, the two talked and Dilma decided to tear up the bill to divide and each one keep one half. “My father laughed and thought it was beautiful. My mother said: this girl is silly”.

“I had a strong feeling for poor people,” he revealed.

Born in Bulgaria, Pedro Rousseff, the PT’s father, fled the country to escape fascism and passed through France and Argentina before arriving in Brazil, where he married Dilma Jane from Minas Gerais. The couple had three children.

The former president said she grew up in a middle-class neighborhood that had houses with balconies, trees on the streets and a quality public school. “We thought that private school was PPP (dad pays and passes)”, she said.

The interview covered topics such as impeachment, racism, misogyny and the need to invest in education and adopt compensatory policies in the country.

Dilma stated that she has no intention of contesting elections.

“I don’t want electoral commitment because I want to say the things I believe in,” he said. Despite this, he stated that he is willing to participate in public life in other ways. “The ball runs, I participate, I can help in many ways”.

She retorted when Mano Brown claimed she’s still young. “I’m not new. A 74-year-old person is anything but young. I’m at that stage where the descent is really a descent, you saw my son. I’m not mistaken”, she replied.

At the end of the interview, he revealed the main fear he feels today: that something serious will happen to his two grandchildren. “Let’s not even talk,” reacted Brown.

During the first season of Mano a Mano, the rap singer and songwriter spoke with politicians such as São Paulo city councilor Fernando Holiday and former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who starred in the most listened to Spotify episode in Brazil in 2021.