Marcelo Déda will be the namesake of three major works.

247 - Governor Marcelo Déda, who passed away this Monday (2), at the age of 53, victim of gastrointestinal cancer, will, in principle, give his name to three important works in the State. The future Cancer Hospital (whose service order for land leveling will be launched later this month), the Tobias Barreto Business Center and the Tancredo Neves avenue underpass, in Aracaju (this last work being the responsibility of the capital's city hall).

Unlike other administrators, who always made it a practice to lend their names to public works of their own governments, Déda, even when permitted by law, never did this. He chose to honor politicians, artists, and thinkers from Sergipe who were no longer alive. Now, with his passing, the acting governor Jackson Barreto has decreed that both the Business Center, conceived by Déda, and the Cancer Hospital, the latter the subject of much controversy and dispute between the government and the opposition, will bear the name of the Workers' Party member.

Even the choice of a name for the hospital has become part of the political debate. Senator Eduardo Amorim (PSC) said he will propose to the president of the Legislative Assembly, State Representative Angélica Guimarães (PSC), that the future oncology center be named after Déda. Following this announcement on radio stations, the Deputy Secretary of the State Government, José Sales Neto, immediately went on air to inform that it had been Jackson's decision to name the hospital after Déda.

The new viaduct on Tancredo Neves Avenue (which will connect the Jardins and Inácio Barbosa neighborhoods) will be named after Déda, a decision made by Mayor João Alves Filho (DEM), who announced it last Monday (2), as a way to honor the governor who was mayor of the capital for two terms.