Paes rules out the closure in Rio: ‘Extreme and unnecessary measure’ | 2020 elections in Rio de Janeiro

In your evaluation, total isolation would be “extreme and unnecessary”said in an interview with GloboNews journalist Andréia Sadi.

“At first, I discard the lock. It is important that we have many more measures from the therapeutic point of view. It is unacceptable for people to get sick and not have a bed available in a public hospital. This is the great challenge, putting the city’s health network into operation so that the population can have care in case of need, ”said Paes, in an interview with the Em Foco Program with Andréia Sadi, from Globonews.

“Obviously, measures of social distance, use of masks, in short, rules and, above all, trying to talk to people. We cannot ask people what they are not going to do. So, the confinement seems an extreme and unnecessary measure ”.

Paes also said that he has been speaking with the future Secretary of Health, Daniel Soranz, precisely because of his concern for Health, aggravated at that time by the pandemic.

Rio de Janeiro faces an increase in cases and deaths from coronavirus that already have waiting lines for beds in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). This Saturday (28), the occupation of ICU beds in the The SUS network in the capital reached 93%. In nursing it reached 70%.

According to the most recent bulletin from the Rio Secretary of State for Health, the queue for a bed in the state already has 358 patients, of these, 151 are waiting for a place in the Intensive Care Centers (CTI).

Paes also said that he will serve the 4-year term as mayor, but plans to participate in the country’s political process..

“The government that looks only at one niche is over,” he said.

The elected mayor answered questions on various topics, such as Public Safety, Health, corruption, Education and possible alliance with the left.

Asked about a possible difficulty in obtaining help from the federal government to combat the pandemic, Paes said again that he will try to work in an integrated way.

“I did not have the support of President Bolsonaro. He supported Crivella’s candidacy, but the election ended yesterday at five in the afternoon. But that is what I said throughout the campaign. we will work in institutional partnership with the federal government. President Bolsonaro is from Rio, there are many important people in Brasilia who are from Rio. Rio needs help right now, we are going to work together all the time, looking for solutions to problems, ”he said.

Regarding the Public Safety area of ​​the capital, he said that the main role of the city is to curb economic activity – such as irregular construction – that is behind the militia groups.

See below the main excerpts from the interview:

“When I was mayor for 8 years, I had the vision that it was not necessary to arm the Municipal Guard. I believe it can have a greater role in public safety, in the large commercial areas of the city, in places with the highest flow of pedestrians, in BRT stations, and to fulfill this role, even assisting public security forces of the state, even allowing the security forces to confront crime and for the city to assume part of that ostensive surveillance role.

For this, it is important that we have a group of the Guard, a small group of guards, duly trained to use the weapon in this way. “

Would arming the Guard be a “political wink”?

“There is no kind of political assent. You have a life decision as it is. After talking a lot with people discussing Public Safety, I was a candidate for governor in 2018, so this was a topic that I delved into and I understood that it was important that the Municipal Guard use the weapons that the guard can use, I repeat, by far training.

He does not have a political wink, he wants to find a solution to the problems facing the city ”.

“The role of the city in the fight against the militias is mainly to stop the economic activity that generates profits for the militias. I will give the most classic example, which is the irregular occupation of urban land. There is the case that became famous at the national level, that of Muzema, a community in Itanhangá. In which they built buildings and ended up collapsing one. That is an activity controlled by parallel energy.

This kind of thing is an important role of the city to fight permanently to stop the gain of these militiamen.

At the same time, be always available and working together with the state government. This organized crime thing, no matter how much it has a Municipal Guard, has a different role.

But fighting crime is effectively a role of the state government, but with the entire association of the city council. We will do everything. This party to build without authorization from the city council ends on January 1 ”.

“I will stay in the Mayor’s Office of Rio, I will fulfill my mandate for four years. The population has entrusted me with this responsibility. The mayor’s office will need a lot of dedication.

But, obviously, I will participate in the political process. It is far away, but I will participate. I will participate in the political process by looking at the state government. I will certainly participate in the political process by looking at the national elections.

At the right time, but I have no doubt that I will participate, but I will remain in the mayor’s office of Rio, which is a task that honors me and makes me very proud ”.

Presidency of the Republic

“Do you know that story of being so happy with the position I won yesterday? I am a proud mayor, I love my city, I think Rio is a special place.

So I’m enjoying it here. But it may be that, one day, he may think that this of the president of the Republic, the mayor, could be pursuing him until he succeeds. Being president of the Republic is a kind of destiny, of circumstance, but I confess that I do not stop for a minute to think about it.

I confess that I am very happy to take care of Bangu, Campo Grande, Santa Cruz, Ipanema, Leblon, in short. The most beautiful city in the world, the most incredible in the world, which is Rio de Janeiro. “

“First, I believe that both the president of the party, ACM Neto, and the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Rodrigo Maia, are two people with whom I talk a lot, they are two great allies and supporters that I had in this election.

I think they have that role of leading this process, of leading the Democrats through the role that the Democrats have assumed in national politics so that they find a consensus name that can be a candidate for the presidency of the Republic.

I think this is the effort of the party. Obviously I will be at your disposal to collaborate, but I think this process has to be carried out by these two national leaders that the party has ”.

“In education, children in public schools spent a whole year without classes. Therefore, next year we will have to do ‘two years in one’: a lot of school support.

Bringing technology to public school children. There is no longer the “computer lab” business. You have to have the internet and a tablet for everyone, to eventually take classes online. We will work very hard to make up this lost year for our children.

I want to take this opportunity to tell all investors that Rio is once again a business friendly city.

The human capital, the largest number of master’s degrees, graduates, with higher education, is here in Brazil. “

Cesar Maia on the City Council team

“I am not going to make the invitation on GloboNews, but if he wants to accept it, it will be my pleasure. I haven’t talked to him yet. He called me to say hi and we talked really fast. I’ll be with him this week.

Cesar was mayor for three terms, 12 years in the mayoralty. I think we will need a lot of experience, and that was the reason why the population chose me. People wanted a proven manager who knew the city. And there is no doubt.

Imagine joining two mayors with three terms working together. It would be an honor for me, but we didn’t have any discussion about it. Let’s talk to see what happens. “

“I reaffirm what I said about PSOL. In fact, I want to thank PSOL and Deputy Marcelo Freixo, Councilor Tarcísio, Councilor Chico Alencar. Anyway, PSOL staff who asked for votes for me. This critical vote.

And there are cadres from the workers’ party, Mrs. Benedita. In addition to the pictures on the right that supported me.

I think what we managed to build here in Rio is an alliance that I think we have to look at national politics and see that. We need to establish bridges, channels, dialogue. We govern better when we speak, when we hear otherwise. I do not agree with many of the things that PSOL represents, that PSOL thinks.

But maintaining the dialogue is important. They are going to oppose the City Council, I have no doubt about that, there are seven councilors. But they can object and at the same time we can talk.

Previously, Paes had already said that he would meet with Soranz on Monday to define measures to combat the new coronavirus pandemic.

A press conference was scheduled for 2:00 p.m., already with the future municipal secretary of health, to announce the first measures that the portfolio will implement.

According to Paes, many deaths that occurred in Rio could have been prevented with the proper preventive measures.

“We are going to work on the issue of reopening beds. There is a bed in Acari, there is a bed in the federal network, for that Daniel will begin to articulate with the Minister of Health and address the pandemic as it should be treated, with care, zeal, allowing the fatality rate in Rio de Janeiro to be drastically reduced. Many deaths in Rio de Janeiro that if we had done a better job this would not have happened, “said Paes, during an interview with Bom Dia Rio.

OR G1 Marcelo Crivella was contacted, who reported that the city acted responsibly during the pandemic and that it was the entity that made more beds available for Covid-19. (see full note below):

“The Rio City Council was the entity that opened the most beds to combat Covid-19 in the SUS network of the capital and the only one that maintains a field hospital and a referral unit (Ronaldo Gazzola hospital) in operation – in addition to not have no ICU beds have been closed since the onset of the pandemic. *

Only * in the last two weeks, 37 new Covid ITU * beds were opened in the municipal network. The City Council hospitals * now have 918 beds to treat the disease, of which 288 are ICU beds *.

The municipal health network has been responsible for 69% of hospitalizations throughout the pandemic so far. In recent days, as widely reported, the City Council and the state government have been negotiating the expansion of beds in municipal units.

Eleven imaging centers were also created, with modern tomographs that facilitated access to diagnosis. These locations conducted more than 13,000 tests.