“Sustainability party” is born in Brazil headed by tireless fighter for Amazon rainforest protection
Former Brazilian environment minister and presidential candidate Marina Silva has launched a new political party with an eye on next year’s presidential elections. The new party is called “Sustainability Network.” It was launched in Brasilia at a meeting of politicians, congressmen and other Silva supporters.
Marina said “it is not a party created just for the elections” and said it “calls for a new vision of the world, in which we will be participants and not just spectators.”
Silva, 55, did not say if she plans to run for the presidency in 2014. She won a surprising 20 million votes, or 19% of the total, in a first round of voting when she ran for president in 2010.
Silva's party will push for “a sustainable future and seek to break the monopoly of traditional political parties,” said Pedro Ivo Batista, who is helping set up the new organization.
“We want a new way of conducting politics, bring politics to the people, use the networks of civil society,” he added.
A figurehead of Brazil's environmental movement, Silva has been a tireless fighter for the protection of the Amazon rainforest.
A member of ex-president Lula da Silva's Worker's Party until 2009, Silva served in his cabinet as environment minister for five years from 2003. She later joined the Green Party.
Born into a family of rubber tappers in the northern state of Acre, she was a colleague of Chico Mendes, the environmental pioneer who was assassinated for defending the Amazon environment.
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and with time and luck, you may well see your dreams come true,
an honest brazil, nice brazil , happy brazil, and no CFK.
well done.
Brasil needs trading structures, research, development, indigenous high-tech industries, infrastructure and education, education, education.
Oil, gas, hydroelectrics and nuclear will be the next president's energy agenda. Can she move her desired position to one which recognises the strange energy-bedfellows that she would have to embrace?
Silva may reduce the rate of forest destruction but can she take on the 'coronels', the ranchers, the agrocompanies, the loggers, the miners with the expectation that they will even compromise with her leadership.
I think not - though it pains me to say it.
Dilma is developing the track-record and the balls.
She may drag Brasil, kicking and screaming, into a more ethical world. Until she fails or is found to be 'not what she presently professes to be', I will support her rather than Marina.
sussy again you have been reported for using other peoples I.D.
your ignorence is as childish as your inteligence.
i agree,
perhaps susy will just fade away.lol.
Other than that she prefers the use of force to achieve all of her other goals, such as fighting poverty. Instead of creating a business friendly environment, she prefers to use of force to redistribute wealth to the poor. Yet this only makes the poor dependent on the government and at the same time kills off any incentive for people to work or business to create new jobs.
So I don't think she would be any good for the country. She may be popular with the people, but the role of the President isn't to be popular, but to lead a country (note the word “lead” and not “rule”). In any good leader, be it a general of an army or the manager of a business, one must make difficult decisions that are NOT popular; Sra. Silva doesn't have this ability. She is a populist such as Lula, CFK, Hugo, Correa, Obama, etc.
Excellent post, I particularly like the ”(note the word “lead” and not “rule”)” bit.
But beyond that point a popular president can do much more than an unpopular one.
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