The only parliamentary in the first rank, Tourism Minister Marcelo Álvaro Antônio, a federal deputy licensed by Minas Gerais, says ministerial technicians should align themselves with the ideology of the Jair Bolsonaro government, which preaches a liberalizing state.
"It's natural that we avoid having people with opposing ideologies in the group that can often be here sabotaging our day-to-day work," he said in an interview with ‘Estadão’ newspaper.
After staging a public chat with deputy-elect Alexandre Frota (PSL-Sao Paulo), who claimed the resignation of the minister's advisers appointed as "leftists", Antonio says that the PSL bench will enter into affinity and that he understood the actor: "We're fine with each other."
The new minister suggested that Brazilians should not travel abroad without first knowing the country and showed restrictions on the liberation of gambling, an agenda of the sector.
"I'm not favorable. I think we have to move forward in a discussion involving the integrated resorts, as we see in Singapore. Not bingo, game of the animal ... Today it seems that it is very safe in the matter of the Federal Revenue, of money laundering, it seems that leaves no margin for these things", assures the minister.
Consulted on how to reconcile a agenda that is well regarded by the Tourism sector and not by him and by the evangelical front, in which he participates, Marcelo Álvaro Antônio said that "what shivers the evangelical and part of the Catholic bench is the worker entering a door bingo, leave his salary there, and the family will be helpless. "
"Integrated resorts eliminate that. One goes to a resort, a leisure trip. Discussion needs to be focused and restricted on integrated resorts. Other than that, I am not in favor of discussing”, added the Minister of Tourism.
Álvaro Antônio is one of the four ministers with a political and non-technical mandate: "I have been part of the Parliamentary Front in Defense of Tourism since 2015. The front, through Deputy Herculano Passos (PSD-Sao Paulo), endorsed my name. The tourism trade also made a gesture of acceptance. My struggle was in the first place for the maintenance of the ministry, which had the possibility of being extinguished. Having succeeded in this endeavor, the president, knowing that I am an active participant from the front, invited me to touch the folder. "
Source: GMB
