'We built airports, but nobody kept the key'
Ironizing her PSDB opponent, Aécio Neves, regarding the case of the airport built on property that belonged to his family in the municipality of Cláudio (MG), President Dilma Rousseff stated that, during her government, she built airports, but "didn't keep the keys" to them; "They said there wouldn't be an airport [for the World Cup]. We increased the capacity of the airports by 67 million [passengers] and nobody kept the keys to those airports," Dilma said in a speech on Friday night in Montes Claros, where she was alongside former President Lula for the first time since the beginning of the campaign; PT members launched the candidacy of Josué Alencar (PMDB), son of former Vice-President José Alencar, for the Senate.
Minas 247 – During a PT (Workers' Party) event in Montes Claros (MG), President Dilma Rousseff mocked the construction, by her opponent Aécio Neves (PSDB), of an airport on property that belonged to her family when he was governor of Minas Gerais. On the evening of Friday the 1st, Dilma recalled that, during her government, she built and increased the capacity of airports, but "did not keep the keys" to them.
"They said there wouldn't be an airport [for the World Cup]. We increased airport capacity by 67 million [passengers] and nobody got the keys to those airports," the president stated, for the first time alongside former president Lula since the official start of the campaign. The event launched businessman Josué Alencar (PMDB), son of former vice-president José Alencar, who died in 2011, into the Senate race.
According to a report by Folha de S. Paulo, the presidential candidate from the PSDB party built an airfield on property that belonged to his great-uncle in the municipality of Cláudio (MG), at the end of his term as governor of Minas Gerais. On Thursday the 31st, Aécio admitted to using the runway., according to him "inadvertently", even without having been approved by ANAC. The PT It entered yesterday. with criminal charges filed against the candidate at the Attorney General's Office.
In another reference to her opponent, Dilma declared that she would avoid, as much as possible, adopting "unpopular" or "anti-popular" measures when combating the effects of the economic crisis in a possible second term. This alluded to Aécio's speech to business leaders in April, when he stated that he would be willing to take any kind of measure, even "unpopular" ones, to get the country back on the path to growth. Later, he changed his tune, saying that it was the current government, the PT (Workers' Party), that was taking unpopular measures.
Dilma stated that she will work "systematically" to avoid making decisions that harm the majority of the population. "We will confront those who believe that change means going backward, regressing to the worst aspects of the past, increasing unemployment, and making it so that those who suffer the most from the crisis are the workers, the small business owners, the majority of the population," she declared to an audience of mayors from Northern Minas Gerais.