Rollemberg: 'The people must safeguard the Constitution'

The Senate Agency - In celebrating in plenary, this Thursday (31), the 25th anniversary of the promulgation of the Federal Constitution, Senator Rodrigo Rollemberg (PSB-DF) highlighted the importance of the text which, according to him, remains current and continues to be a repository of the highest hopes for the future of the Brazilian nation.

According to the parliamentarian, the 1988 Constitution is a precious document that needs to be preserved by Brazilian citizens, among other things, because it enshrines the inalienable rights of human beings, such as freedom of expression, peaceful assembly, and political participation, as well as the right to universal and direct suffrage, exercised in periodic elections and extended to illiterate people.

– On the silver jubilee of the promulgation of our Constitutional Charter, the best we can wish for Brazilian society is the preservation of such a precious tool for coexistence. In short, we wish that the Constitution of the Republic maintains its brilliance as a safe beacon in the stormy sea of ​​History, forever rejecting any kind of regression – he said.

Rollemberg paid tribute to the members of the National Congress who participated in the 1987 Constituent Assembly, especially the figure of opposition leader Ulysses Guimarães, who died in a helicopter accident in 1992.

"It was neither small nor insignificant, the dream dreamt during those unforgettable days by the vital forces of society, who made themselves heard in the Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate, through all their political representatives, from all parties and ideological currents," he recalled.

Rollemberg added that there is still much to be done, even though Brazil managed to become a free country after the promulgation of the Constitution in 1988, and rightly improved its socioeconomic indicators.

According to the congressman, the recent popular demonstrations that took place in the country, with people in the streets demanding higher quality in essential public services such as education, health, and security, demonstrated that the current moment requires a new way of doing politics in the country. Rodrigo Rollemberg stated that the new way of doing politics, while preserving the achievements reached after the promulgation of the 88 Constitution, must also be focused on transparency and the careful management of public resources, which, in his opinion, only democracy and alternation of power can offer.