by frog
About time, I’d say, and Brazil could be where it happens. Kennedy Graham received an email at the weekend quoting this article, Brazil’s Presidential Race Gets Interesting, from the Green Party of Brazil.
- Marina Silva: tree hugger and presidential candidate
Marina Silva, a Senator and former environment minister in President Lula da Silva’s government, has decided to stand for the presidency as a Green. Marina left the governing party last year over concerns it would not support her efforts to reduce deforestation in the Amazon and instead give in to pressure from business interests.
Marina joined the Greens and has been expected to announce her candidacy for president for some time. The election is in October and she is already polling 9.5% after her announcement.
Kennedy says Marina spoke at the Copenhagen Climate Summit in December. He was impressed with her grasp of the issues of global sustainability and climate change and the critical role that Brazil has to play.
Though she spoke in Portuguese, “her presence was a commanding one that inspired the NGO movement. There are high hopes being placed on her now – and we wish her well”.
Aroha from Aotearoa, Marina!
Published in Environment & Resource Management by frog on Mon, March 8th, 2010
Tags: amazon, Brazil, deforestation, Lula da Silva, Marina Silva
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
Just remember 9.5% is not 51% (or whatever amount is required for victory in Brazil) but of course time changes all, It may be very good for Brazil to have a green as president but due to the way the Brazilian Political System There may be little that the role could achieve despite the fairly significant powers their president has due to the federal system and the bicameral parliament
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Will she increase the minimum wage so poor people can get an education, practise birth control and stop ripping into the Amazon?
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Here’s a story about the Green mayor of Bogata (unfortunately beaten by a leftist who promised a subway).
Thinking about Equality in New Ways
“We live in the post-communism period, in which many have assumed equality as a social goal is obsolete,” he explains. “Although income equality as a concept does not jibe with market economy, we can seek to achieve quality-of-life equality.”
http://shareable.net/blog/can-we-design-cities-for-happiness
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Good post, frog.
She seems like an energetic and personable woman.
I hope she does better than the last female Colombian Green politician Ingrid Betancourt, who was kidnapped and held hostage for many years by a rival militia.
Most of the publicity about that was published by French media, so you may have missed it, like most of the media here did.
Some pictures here, published last year, give an easy overview of her story:
http://www.parismatch.com/Actu-Match/Monde/Photos/L-annee-Ingrid-Betancourt/
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Sorry, but I think that the first green president of the world will be the former mayor of Bogotá Antanas Mockus. Not only elections in Colombia are earlier than those in Brazil, but this candidate has actually a really good shot at wining the election. I’m very exited to see how this story unfolds.
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