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Politics, culture, urban problems, soccer and carnival. Always known for saying forceful, sincere and effective phrases in his speeches, the mayor of Belo Horizonte Alexandre Kalil (PSD) did not shy away from any topic in the interview given to the program. Living wheel, from TV Cultura, broadcast on Monday night (11/30). In a two-hour sabbatical, he attacked the governor of Minas Gerais, Romeu Zema, criticized President Jair Bolsonaro and admitted that he would accept an invitation to run for the Palacio do Planalto in 2022.
Presidency and Government of Minas Gerais
Although his intention is to command the city until the end of his term, as he said in several interviews in his re-election campaign, Kalil confessed that he would agree to run for the presidency of the Republic: “If you want to take me, of course I will. Today I am mayor of Belo Horizonte. Now: if I go up there, thank you very much ”.
He also said that he could run for the government of Minas in 2022: “No. It was not out of the question, I answered it during the campaign. But obviously I have to respect the vote I had, I have not even taken the second term yet. The situation in Minas will be in two years, nobody knows ”.
Relationship with Zema
In Minas, the dispute between Kalil and Governor Romeu Zema in recent. The mayor accuses the State, which is going through a serious financial crisis, of not transferring resources to invest in improvements to the mining capital. “The government of Minas is poisoned. The governor of Minas does not say or do anything. Belo Horizonte is off the government’s menu, ”says Kalil.
He took the opportunity to nudge the governor: “Don’t help me with a doctor or anything, what do I want with him? Coffee or beer? Bullet de Arax I have people who bring me.”
Pandemic
Kalil spared no criticism of President Jair Bolsonaro for his negligence during the coronavirus pandemic. He said the president was wrong to minimize the severity of the disease, encouraging people to take to the streets: “Let’s be very honest. He invested money in the pandemic. To deny the pandemic was to verbalize. It was free. It costs nothing. So the hardest thing to do, he did. It did not save in the pandemic. If he hadn’t denied it, he would have spent half of what he spent. “
The mayor of BH again criticized Bolsonaro for the lack of dialogue with the mining capital. Kalil said he was not received by the president to deal with transfers from the capital of Minas Gerais: “I don’t need him (Bolsonaro) as a friend. I need it to give me money for health, education, infrastructure … My friends who drink beer I already have it.
Vaccine
He also commented on the dispute between Bolsonaro and the governor of So Paulo, Joo Doria, over the coronavirus vaccine. The federal government has supported the research at the University of Oxford, with the action of Fiocruz. The State of So Paulo promotes the production of China Sinovac Biotech, with the support of the Butantan Institute.
“When one does not want to, two do not fight. One wonders if this Chinese vaccine works and arrives faster … Do you think the federal government will not buy it? Do you think the government has the heart not to buy? impeachment on the ground. That is why I say that it is impossible to determine what will happen in the 2022 elections ”.
Back to school
Kalil was also asked about the return of schools in the middle of a pandemic. He was easy when he claimed that remote classes weren’t working: “Did remote teaching work somewhere? No. Just see where it turned out that I’ll learn there. In Brazil it failed and I will not copy something that failed ”.
Carnival
Kalil commented that he approves holding the carnival next year between April and May in the same way that Rio and Salvador plan. But I said this will only happen if everyone is vaccinated: “We put 3 million people on the streets. If everything is vaccinated and safe, I don’t see any problem. Cariocas and Bahians who understand carnival. And we will be with them ”.
Public transport
Alexandre Kalil spoke about the situation of public transport in the capital, problems with the increase of tickets and the black box of BH Trans. He said that he will create a super secretariat to attend to the problem and the great works: “If someone brings me the solution for public transport, solid waste and the homeless, I accept it immediately. Now we have to face. We can’t run. “
Healing paint
Kalil commented on the fact that a resident of a building in Belo Horizonte entered Justice to try to erase an image that represents black culture. The art is part of the Cura (Urban Circuit of Art) project, which is often seen in buildings in the capital.
“I have a lot of that. He’s just a boaloid. What are you going to do with a guy like that? Nothing. I don’t know who. It doesn’t matter. The world is intimidated. If I’m an athlete it’s because the only ones who agreed to be friends with my grandmother and my grandfather were black, they took my father and they took him to the Atlantic game. What do I do with a good boy? I can open a gay parade. A flying saucer goes down and I want to go. Come get me. ”
