The (Landless Rural Workers Movement) does not have high expectations for the third term of the president (PT), says the group’s national leadership, who cites the context in which the PT member was elected and budgetary issues as obstacles.
Hadich cites data from the (National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform) that shows that around 140,000 families are camped out waiting for land. “Based on data from Incra itself, we know that it may not cover 20,000 or 25,000 of those families that are on the register of camped families”, he says.
“What we are seeing the government do within its possibilities, not budgetary, is, within settlement projects that already exist, regularization and recognition of quilombola areas, facts that are very important, but that go beyond this direct confrontation with the demand for the fight for land in Brazil”, he highlights.
The member of the MST’s national leadership states that one of the barriers to agrarian reform was the president’s need to work with groups that represented interests antagonistic to the demand.
Therefore, argues Hadich, although the MDA (Ministry of Agrarian Development and Family Agriculture) was recreated, it was not equipped with the necessary structure to implement the land redistribution policy. “Today we do not have a budget in the MDA portfolio that is consistent with the needs we have in Brazil today to carry out agrarian reform”, he says.
She states that, in a possible fourth term for the PT member, the discussion on agrarian reform will gain weight. In the meantime, he says, the group will continue mobilizing, “encouraging the fight for agrarian reform, continuing to settle families and help develop the settlements that already exist in Brazil.”
“More than that, let us also point to the possibility of having, in fact, a clear project for carrying out agrarian reform in the country on the horizon of a new government”, he states.
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