Neca donates another R$ 2 million to Marina's allies.
A shareholder of Itaú bank and Marina Silva's "fairy godmother," Neca Setubal is the third-largest individual donor in the 2014 elections; coordinator of the former senator's government program, she financed part of the presidential candidate's campaign, as well as that of PSB competitors and candidates from three other parties linked to Rede: PV, PDT, and PPS; last year, she donated R$ 1 million to Marina, covering 83% of her institute's expenses.
247 – Neca Setubal, the “educator” as she likes to be called, became the third largest individual donor in the 2014 elections. Coordinator of Marina Silva's (PSB) government program, the Itaú bank shareholder had donated, up to the beginning of September, R$ 2 million to candidates from the PSB and three other parties linked to Rede: PV, PDT, and PPS.
The largest donations, of R$ 200 each, were destined for Marina Silva and the candidates for federal deputy in São Paulo, José Gustavo Fávaro, and Tocantins, Rafael Boff, and the PSB candidate for governor in Amazonas, Marcelo Ramos Rodrigues.
Other major beneficiaries were Eliana Calmon (PSB-BA) and Reguffe (PDT-DF), with deposits totaling R$ 130.
Last year, the Itaú heiress donated R$ 1 million to Marina, covering 83% of her institute's expenses.
Yesterday, President Dilma Rousseff countered the media operation that Neca has been carrying out to disassociate his work on Marina's campaign from the support of the banking family.
"Neca the educator is Neca the educator. Now, to the extent that I am an heiress of Banco Itaú and defend a policy that clearly benefits banks, which is the policy of independence of the Central Bank, of reducing the role of public banks, I am acting as a banker and I am not talking about education, about children or about daycare," the president stated. "What I am saying is that what has changed is the attitude and posture of the person (Neca). Nothing else has changed. Each of us is who we are," she affirmed.
Read here A report from the Estado de S. Paulo newspaper on the subject.