Former government national secretary for Family (), the lawyer states that the causes she defends, such as , are not part of the agenda of the International Relations department, to which she was appointed by the mayor ().
Therefore, he says, these themes should not appear in a relevant way in its municipal activities in the coming years. She emphasizes, on the other hand, that she will never stop being “a defender of life” and that she believes that life “is the first human right” and that it cannot be refused.
During the Bolsonaro administration, the lawyer internationally articulated the federal government’s approach to conservative movements and groups.
She tells the Panel that she is very grateful to Bolsonaro, with whom she met in December and who congratulated her in a telephone call, for what the former president enabled her to “do for her family and for life around the world.”
The new secretary states that she always knew how to “dialogue with pluralism” and was never ideological, but “legal, anthropological and sociological” in her work in the federal government.
“As a lawyer, I really defend life as the first human right. And also, within this field, I have never defended it from a religious moral point. I was sometimes asked about this, both at the Family Secretariat and in the work I did internationally in defense of life. I don’t come to speak as a practicing Catholic. [a filósofa] Hannah Arendt would speak, it is a human issue, of human rights”, he argues.
“It is in this sense that I really understand what we are living in the country today, with etc. I think ‘my God, he is a human being’. So, if I am asked and approached, I will never deny what I think. I am very transparent, but I will stick to my agenda, which is all within the Human Rights Secretariat. But I will never deny the defense I have for freedom, the first freedom to be born”, he adds.
The secretary lists technical cooperation agreements, economic agreements and human management as priorities for her tenure in the department.
“I’m very excited because São Paulo is a city that has grown a lot in these four years of management and that can have technical cooperation agreements to exchange a win-win between the cities and at the same time show what the city has and also learn from others countries”, he says.
“As I have a lot of contact with consulates and embassies, I would like to be able to make economic agreements and, at the same time, this human management. I wanted yesterday [quarta-feira, 1º] already talk to the secretary of human rights and say that São Paulo could be the most welcoming city in the world. We have this cosmopolitan spirit”, he adds. “We also wanted to do a great job of welcoming and integrating” immigrants.
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