“We are not going to raise taxes,” says Duarte Nogueira after reelection in Ribeirão Preto, SP | Elections 2020 in Ribeirão and Franca – SP

He defeated Suely Vilela (PSB) in the second round of the municipal elections. The candidate obtained 90,065 votes, which represents 36.84% of the total.

The second round in Ribeirão Preto had 35.61% of abstention, 3.85% of white votes and 10.21% of invalid votes.

“We are not going to raise taxes. We will ensure faster opening of jobs. In September, we had more than 1,500 jobs created. In October, more than 2 thousand. In the second semester there were 4, 7 thousand more jobs, positive than those we lost during the pandemic, “he said.

The re-elected mayor accompanied the final part of the vote in the campaign committee, on Avenida Independência, where he arrived around 6:30 pm and was taken by supporters.

He was wearing a mask, as were most of the followers. Other supporters did not wear the mandatory accessory during the Covid-19 pandemic. There was agglomeration and social distance was not respected.

Duarte Nogueira also spoke about actions to combat the Covid-19 pandemic aimed at the economy. Ribeirão Preto has 33,849 cases of Covid-19 and 894 deaths, according to data from the Municipal Health Department on Friday (27), the date of the last update.

On Sunday night, the city has 41.88% occupancy in beds of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), with 49 hospitalized in 117 available places.

The municipality, headquarters of the Regional Health Directorate 13, is in the yellow phase of the São Paulo Plan, the third step to make the economy more flexible. A new configuration of the state map is scheduled for this Monday (30).

“It is knowing how to face the pandemic, which is still present, with all social distances, protocols. So that we cannot reverse the activities that returned in commerce, services and others that were paralyzed during the pandemic. The City Council must be agile, it must be quick in issuing permits, licenses and speed to approve new companies. Being a friendly city with the entrepreneurial environment and contributing to job creation ”, he said.

Nogueira guaranteed that the next four years of management will not be a continuation of the mandate that ends on December 31, 2020, but a new government.

The first change is already in the deputy mayor. Until the end of the current administration, former prosecutor Carlos Cezar Barbosa, who has a conflictual and broken relationship with Nogueira, is number two in the Ribeirão Preto Executive. As of January 1, the 38-year-old lawyer Daniel Gobbi (PP) will take office.

“I will repeat it very clearly: it is not a continuity, it is not a continuity of government. It is a new government that we will have from 2021 to 2024. The city is recycling, it has new priorities. The world has new demands, new creativity, new elements to absorb, to put into practice, for the benefit of our population ”, he said.

56-year-old agronomist, Antônio Duarte Nogueira Júnior will command the municipality for the second consecutive time. Its declared equity is R $ 4,209,205.42.

Born in Ribeirão Preto and son of former mayor Antônio Duarte Nogueira (1937-1990), in 2016 he was elected executive director for the first time, with 56.94% of the votes in the second round, after running three more times for the position . .

Previously, he was a state deputy for three terms, state secretary of Housing in 1995, Agriculture and Supply, between 2003 and 2006, and Logistics and Transportation between 2015 and 2016. In addition, he was elected federal deputy in 2006, 2010 and 2014, he led the bench of the PSDB in the Chamber between 2011 and 2013 and chaired the acronym in São Paulo between 2013 and 2015.

Known as the capital of agribusiness and an important center for services, education and health, Ribeirão Preto has the eighth largest population in the state of São Paulo, with about 712 thousand inhabitants, one of the 296 largest GDP per capita in the country R $ 51.7 thousand and an average of 2.9 monthly minimum wages for formal workers.

For 2021, the budget projected by the municipal administration is R $ 3.5 billion.

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