Marina Silva on Ricardo Salles: 'He took office to dismantle the ministry'
Visibly shaken by the unprecedented and rapid setbacks that have spread across the country, former Environment Minister and former presidential candidate Marina Silva states that the current Environment Minister was appointed to "liquidate" the ministry; she says that the measures being taken will bring legal uncertainty and that the Bolsonaro government is pursuing a policy of "demolition."
247 - Visibly shaken by the unprecedented and rapid setbacks that have spread across the country, former Environment Minister and former presidential candidate Marina Silva states that the current Environment Minister was appointed to "liquidate" the ministry. She says that the measures being taken will bring legal uncertainty and that the Bolsonaro government is pursuing a policy of "demolition."
The Valor newspaper report It highlights the former minister's disappointment regarding the Bolsonaro issue, in literary figures: "andInterspersed with sighs and long pauses, the former minister points out that the changes being adopted in the environmental licensing process tend to bring even more legal uncertainty, and she ironically comments on the position of some government members who criticize the theory of global warming. According to her, there has never been a government formed by a "hegemonic center of skeptics" like the current one.
Regarding the current structure of the Ministry of the Environment, Marina says: "and"I think he [Bolsonaro] didn't implement a policy of consolidation [with the Ministry of Agriculture], and in practice he's implementing a policy of demolition, he's demolishing the ministry. The minister [Ricardo Salles] didn't take office to be the minister of protection, but to be the minister of the liquidation of the Ministry of the Environment. You know when you have that person appointed to liquidate a bankrupt company? That's what he's doing. And you can't even say he's a well-intentioned person, he's playing the game, he knows what he's doing."
Regarding the changes that cause the most concern, she states: "For me, the most disastrous [change] is having a minister who doesn't care about the very Ministry he leads. Someone who goes to the Ministry of the Environment to be contrary to the primary nature of the ministry, that's the worst setback. A minister who is more concerned with pleasing the most reactionary sectors of agribusiness."