Candidates for mayor of Macapá debate proposals in the Daily Communication System – Diário do Amapá

Douglas Lima
Editor

With the absence of the MDB candidate, Antônio Furlan, the Daily Communication System held on the afternoon of this Tuesday, 1st, the traditional debate between the candidates for the position of mayor of Macapá. Four of them participated: Patrícia Ferraz (PSDB), Aline Gurgel (Republicans), Gilvam Borges (Avante) and Paulo Lemos (Psol).

In the verbal confrontation, the candidates addressed several issues of interest to the municipality of Macapá, and took the opportunity to criticize the current manager’s withdrawal, Antonio Furlanwho is seeking re-election. Early in the morning, with the announcement of his agenda, he confirmed his presence at the Debate of Daily, but later, in an advisory note, he informed that he would not be able to participate due to other campaign commitments.

Follow the performance of each candidate at the Laurindo Banha Palace, the headquarters of the municipal government of the capital of Amapá:

The tucana Patrícia Ferraz He started the debate by playing to the women’s fans, a strategy he adopted until he left, having said several times: “Women vote for women, yes”. She said that a woman can be a housewife and businesswoman, as well as a taxi driver and still be in politics, regardless of her beauty, because she was made to serve with excellence.

The PSDB candidate promised, if elected, to advance the municipality’s health, implementing Electronic Medical Records in all UBSs, so that wherever the patient goes for treatment, they will soon be identified. For the sector, it will hold a public tender and obtain five more trucks from women, in addition to implementing Telemedicine.

Patricia promised to hold a tender for public transport in Macapá and guarantee new buses with internet and air conditioning. It will also provide the collective driving service with an app so that users have personal control over where the bus on the line is and how long it will take to get to the stop.

Tucana will also implement more cycle lanes and cycle paths in the city, in addition to synchronized traffic lights, as well as revitalizing taxi, motorcycle taxi and bus stops. She promised to hold a public competition to hire traffic agents, as well as for CTMac, the educational sector and even for the Civil Guard.

The candidate for mayor promised to regularize the land ownership of urban lots in the capital, to guarantee legal housing for families living in the invaded areas, and will also regularize the occupants of so-called obsolete areas. “We know how essential it is to live with your family in your own home”, he explained.

Patricia promised to create the Municipal Public Security Secretariat. She understands that the Civil Guard must not only protect property, but also the population, integrated with the state and federal government security forces. She will implement monitoring in schools, with cameras, without leaving aside in-person surveillance, because, according to her, this generates authority.

The candidate also promised to create jobs and income through a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) and also, to make tourism a strong source of income in the municipality of Macapá, she will value the Equator Line, the Amazon River, Mara Baixo and gastronomy location. With the same focus, it will train young people to enter tourism.

Aline Gurgelfrom the Republicans, promised to build two new UBSs, one in the south zone, near Araxá and Pedrinhas, and another in the center-west zone. It will decentralize imaging exams, currently carried out only at the Papaléo Paes Polyclinic, distributing them across basic health units. It will work on women’s health, focusing on prevention. The woman’s truck, which according to her is not working, will be used again.

The candidate for the Laurindo Banha Palace promised to implement the CNH Citizen Program, which consists of issuing a National Driving License, free of charge, for the benefit of young people who want to undertake or work. He will also implement, as he said in the interview, the Professional Training Center.

The candidate said that 14 thousand families live in hangover areas, in Macapá, subjected to inhumane forms of survival. “To get these people out of there, we are going to build housing complexes in the Congós, Nova Esperança and Muca neighborhoods, and we are also going to deliver the Janary Nunes complex, currently under construction in Fazendinha. This is in our Safe Housing Plan”he promised.

Aline will create in the Macapá government, if elected, the Citizen Security Secretariat, with the purpose of integrating it with other security forces, within the Unified Public Security System (Susp). According to her, the municipality’s public security sector will be ordered by vice-mayor Colonel PM Adilton Corrêa, who was previously head of the Laranjal do Jari Civil Guard and general commander of the Amapá Military Police.

“We are going to establish territories of peace, like what is already happening in Belém do Pará”, said the candidate for mayor of Macapá, to explain that the initiative promotes cultural, educational, artistic and social assistance activities in places vulnerable to violence in the city. She also promised to value teachers, giving them the conditions to work in the classroom and guaranteeing them minimum wages and qualifications.

“Investing in education is the best tool against poverty and hunger”pointed Aline Gurgelas one of the ways she will use to combat the two scourges, one of the flagships of her campaign for mayor of the municipality of Macapá. In one of the interviews she gave on Diário FM, outside of this Tuesday’s debate, the 1st, she promised to end hunger and poverty among the people of Macapá once and for all.

Gilvam Borges began the debate by promising to open Macapá, and consequently the state of Amapá, to the world, with the use of science and technology, including artificial intelligence. “I don’t want to be a conventional mayor, I’m going further”he said, but did not develop his reasoning, preferring, throughout the entire debate, to criticize the absent mayor, with profanity, and to praise the candidates Patrícia Ferraz and Aline Gurgel, calling them competent, and Paulo Lemos, as a public tender specialist.

The Psol candidate, Paulo Lemosbased on the principle that public health means taking care of people, criticized the sector, pointing out that it has no doctors and no medicines. He noted that it is absurd for UBSs to only operate during business hours, which according to him happens in rural areas. “We are going to technologically modernize health in Macapá. In the first week of government, I will organize a public competition for this area”he promised.

Paulo Lemos noted that the tender for public transport in Macapá did not happen because the current management does not dialogue. “We need quality public transport. But the sector is not just about buses. We also need to talk to those who use the app, taxi drivers, cyclists and motorcycle taxi drivers”, argued.

The mayoral candidate promised to create the Municipal People’s Bank to provide a line of credit to encourage industry and entrepreneurship. He will renovate Shopping Popular and put management in charge of guiding the operation of the public place which, as he noted, is an example of poor management.

Paul assessed that Macapá needs a Convention Center to encourage tourism, a sector that, he added, also depends on investment on the city’s waterfront and in Mara Baixo. He showed that it is possible to build the Convention Center with the senators, federal bench, Union government and state government, in tune, a word he uses as a campaign motto.

The psolist, in addition to the public health exam, promised a selection process for education and the Civil Guard. He said he was capable of this because when secretary of Clécio Luíswhen the current governor was mayor, he held a competition; in the Legislative Assembly, as a state deputy, he also took part in a competition, and as government secretary he called candidates for the state.

Criticizing the current management of Macapá City Hall, the candidate said that there is no transparency in it, and that this greatly hinders an evaluation of the work of Antonio Furlanas there is no way to access or search for real data, such as the number of illiterate people in the municipality.

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