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RIO AND SÃO PAULO – The challenges for the next mayors of Rio and São Paulo are as superlative as the importance of the two largest cities in the country. Guidelines such as the consequences of the pandemic in Health and Education and the reduction of poverty, as well as the search for solutions for urban mobility, are points in common between both cities. But each one also needs to respond to local agendas, such as the urgent reversal in the degradation of the BRT system in Rio, or more humanized and effective proposals for the cracoland of São Paulo.
(See the 40 challenges for the future mayor of Rio)
(See the 40 challenges for the future mayor of São Paulo)
GLOBO has listed 40 of those main tasks that the future mayors of both municipalities will have to perform. The priorities were listed together with specialists, associations, federations and social institutions, in addition to consulting official documents and databases.
In Health, the Association of Family and Community Physicians of Rio identifies needs such as the resumption of a trajectory to increase basic health coverage, which in the past has suffered layoffs, salary delays and precarious contracts.
In the city’s economy, weakened by the pandemic, Fecomércio-RJ recalls that, even before the coronavirus, the state of Rio de Janeiro had an increase in informality almost five times higher than in the rest of Brazil.
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– And since the capital concentrates two thirds of the economy of Rio de Janeiro, a large part of this increase occurs in the city of Rio. This makes a plan to create formal jobs urgent – says João Gomes, director of the Fecomércio Research and Analysis (IFec-RJ).
Data from the Federal Government’s General Registry of Employees and Unemployed (CAged) points to the size of the hole. Between admissions and dismissals in the year to October, the city of Rio had a balance of 113,222 less formal jobs; In absolute numbers, it is the worst result in the country.
To change the panorama, entities like Hotéis Rio point to tourism as an obvious path. The union produced a document with claims for 2021. But it is necessary to act against liabilities such as insecurity and environmental degradation.
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At this point, from the biologist Mario Moscatelli to the architect and urban planner Pedro da Luz, all speak the same language: the different spheres of government must join forces to invest in sanitation, which not only improves the living conditions of the population, but also which also reduces pollution. on beaches, bays, lagoons and rivers, postcards of Rio.
In São Paulo, sanitation is also a problem, despite the city having collection and treatment rates for water and sewerage above the national average. Tons of wastewater are dumped into nature on a daily basis. With a budget reduced by R $ 1.9 billion in 2021 compared to this year, due to the lower collection of taxes, actions and investments for the population’s access to basic resources, in parallel with the other areas of attention , should be considered with caution. .
(See the 40 challenges for the future mayor of Rio)
(See the 40 challenges for the future mayor of São Paulo)
