SAMARA MARTINS (UP) | CAFÉ NAS ELEIÇÕES #028

"Hello, we're back for another Coffee in the Elections podcast."

"We've been interviewing here, you know, on our YouTube channel Nossa Enéas é Total, the pre-candidates for state governor, for the Senate, presidential hopefuls as well—which is the case today—and also party presidents and leaders who are involved directly or indirectly in the 2026 elections, both here in Santa Catarina and on the national scene."

"Remember that we've invited all the names, so it depends on schedules, it depends on the interest of the... pre-candidate, but the slots are open so we can bring here a bit of the backstage, a bit of the atmosphere before the conventions actually take place in July, and then we'll have the official candidates and we'll return with interviews more specifically about the candidates for state governor and for the Senate."

"But today, I want to thank Luana Morim first."

"our editor-in-chief of our Anestesia Total in Florianópolis."

"We're going to interview the second presidential hopeful here on our Coffee in the Elections."

"And we already thank Samara Martins for being here, who is from Unidade Popular, has been in Florianópolis since yesterday, attending meetings and so on, and is kindly speaking with us here."

"How are you, Samara?"

"Welcome."

"Thank you very much."

About: guarantee equal access to media and publicity spaces for pre-candidacies

"And I'd like to take the opportunity to thank you for the space, which for us at Unidade Popular these spaces are very precious, because we haven't had much room in the traditional media to present our platform—especially in this contest that seems to have only two presidential hopefuls, two pre-candidates—so being able to have space to present our program and our proposals is very important, so I already thank you for the space given to us."

"our pre-candidate for governor—I thank you very much."

"Let's go."

"It's worth remembering that, right?"

"We interviewed Laís here; Laís Shaoud is a pre-candidate for state governor."

"And Unidade Popular now also has a pre-candidate for the presidency; it should also have pre-candidates for state governor and other offices as well."

"But let's talk first about Samara Martins."

"Who is Samara Martins?"

"Why this idea of running as a pre-candidate for the Presidency of the Republic?"

"Perfect."

About: run for the presidency

"It's the second time we've put forward our ticket for... for the presidential candidacy."

"The first was in 2022 with Léo Pericles, and I was the vice-presidential candidate on that ticket."

About: guarantee political representation of Black women in institutions

"And now our idea was to put forward a working woman, a Black woman, because that's the face of the Brazilian people."

"If we had to define the Brazilian people, it would be a Black woman, because we are mostly women, mostly Black people."

"So the idea was to present that and to represent the working class."

"I work in the SUS; I'm a dentist in the Family Health Strategy in Rio Grande do Norte."

"I was born in Minas Gerais, but today I'm already a naturalized Northeasterner and I live in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, where I raised my family."

"I'm a mother of two."

"And I've been active since the secondary school movement, in the student movement; later I was women's director of the União Nacional dos Estudantes, active in the social movement, in the struggles in neighborhoods, islands and favelas, in the Olga Bernário women's movement, and in the Frente Negra Revolucionária, which was the last movement we built."

"Thus, I became a woman active in social movements and in the struggles of political organizations."

"I was also elected national vice-president of Unidade Popular, which is the position I hold today within the party, and I received this task with joy but also with enormous responsibility to be Unidade Popular's spokesperson now in the pre-candidacy for President of Brazil."

"And, for now, you're the only female pre-candidate for the presidency."

"Do you think this will be a distinguishing factor going into the October campaign?"

"Unfortunately, it's a differentiator, because... Even though we are the majority, including being at a moment in the country's..."

"...situation of the country"

About: lead a national effort to combat violence against women

"where violence against women is enormous, we are living an epidemic of femicide, of violence against women, where four women die in our country as victims of femicide, where every six minutes a woman is raped in our country,"

"with several"

"reports, an increase in reports of violence."

About: increase female participation in activism and party membership

"Having a single female pre-candidate for president is something that is very bad, because women should be in the spaces of power and decision in this country, because they live all these ills of capitalist society."

"But today it ends up being a space for us to present our pre-candidacy, because many newspapers and podcasts have invited us because we are, up to this moment, the only female pre-candidate for the presidency."