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Sessão Deliberativa Extraordinária Semipresencial (AM nº 123/2020)
112 statements · 1 politicians · July 1, 2026
Statements by Tabata Amaral. 112 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Social Policy, Education, Monetary Policy, Legislative Process.
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Thank you very much, Mr. President, dear friend. Good afternoon to everyone.
Right now, several cell phones in this House are buzzing to report some new controversy of the day.
Tomorrow it will be another; the day after, another. Brazilian politics has become a machine that makes us look in the wrong direction.
About: prioritize public policies aimed at reducing poverty and improving public services
Every day it points to a new scandal, a new enemy, a new controversy, anything that grabs your attention, while real life — your life, the one that really matters — happens far from there, with no one looking at its biggest problems: the biggest problems of those who wake up at 4 a.m. to catch two crowded buses to go to work; of those who spend the month doing mental arithmetic at the supermarket to see if the salary will be enough to buy rice, beans, and the children's milk; of the mother who waits months for a medical appointment, for a diagnosis, or for a spot in daycare so she can return to work.
These real lives do not receive the attention they deserve.
That is why the people's weariness with politics is so real and also so legitimate.
So I came today to ask that we try to look at that place, the right place where life is happening.
The right place is sometimes not on stage, sometimes it doesn't go viral, and, for sure, it doesn't make headlines.
Most of the time, the right place has the face of ordinary people from our people: a 17-year-old girl from the periphery who was going to drop out of school, but stayed.
About: expand financial support programs for low-income students
She stayed because of Pé-de-Meia, which today is reducing school dropout in Brazil and keeping millions of students in the classroom, based on an idea that should be obvious.
About: expand financial support programs for low-income students
No low-income young person should abandon their future because they lack money in the present.
Yet there are those who choose to ignore not only the scientific evidence, not only the numbers they so often cite, but all the daily benevolences granted to the elites of this Country, whether in public service or in the private sector, without giving anything back to anyone.
They still have the nerve to call Pé-de-Meia populism, mere handouts.
I call it by the right name: it is the best investment a Nation can make, because every young person who finishes their studies does not only change their own life or that of their family, but changes the entire development trajectory of our Brazil.
About: expand financial support programs for low-income students
Our Country loses billions of reais every year because thousands of young people leave high school to do informal odd jobs to try to supplement the household income, with a few reais today but compromising their entire earning capacity in the future.
About: expand financial support programs for low-income students
When a young person is kept in school, a generational cycle of poverty is broken.
About: implement public policies to increase income and employability of young graduates
A young person who graduates will earn more, consume more, generate more taxes and will rely less on assistance networks.
Pé-de-Meia is a pact; it is Brazil looking into the face of each of these young people and saying: "Stay, study, believe — your turn will come."
A young person with a future is a light; it is the best thing for them and for our Brazil.
This changes an entire nation, one diploma at a time.
About: expand financial support programs for low-income students
I know this because I was that young person; I depended on real support to be able to eat and finish my studies.
I come from the periphery of São Paulo and I am, with pride, the daughter of a cleaner and of a bus conductor.
Education changed my destiny and I entered politics for that reason, which never grows old: to make the chance that reached me reach millions.
When I decided to enter politics, they said I wouldn't even get five hundred votes; there were more than 250 thousand.
When I arrived in Brasília, they said the girl from the periphery would be swallowed up.
About: pass laws that meet the population's needs
I created, coordinated and passed more than thirty laws that today change the lives of many people.
It is not easy, because you have to convince, to add, to look at your opponent and see not an enemy to be destroyed, but a vote, a support to be won.
It is not easy, because today anger is the cheapest fuel in Brazilian politics, it is the easiest to spark and also the most profitable.
Anyone can go up to a podium, sell hatred, come down applauded, go viral on social media.
So it is clear that there is a politics that lives on appearing, on spectacle, and there is a politics that works to deliver: one collects likes; the other reaps achievements; one makes noise; the other makes law.
The noise passes, but the law remains.
About: pass laws that meet the population's needs
The best Deputies in this House know this. Making law is hard work, it requires patience, sitting at a Committee table, reading reports, listening to technicians, listening to the population, negotiating amendments with those who think differently and conceding on secondary points to save what is essential, not for oneself, but for the people, for those on the front line.
It takes much more work than turning on your phone camera in the corridor of the Chamber and firing off insults.
About: adopt policies to reduce monetization of conflict on social networks
The social media algorithm loves conflict, it monetizes collective stress and polarization, but the algorithm does not put food on anyone's table, does not improve anyone's school, does not protect any woman from violence.
The politics of spectacle is sterile. It is an overlit stage set on completely empty ground.
So that's it. And here I want to repeat: the noise passes, but the law remains.
That perception guides my struggle and that of so many others here: Deputy Benê, Deputy Ismael, among so many others for whom I have so much admiration.
What guides our struggle, our day-to-day politics, is this perception that guides my stubbornness, of which you are witnesses.
About: implement active policies to support women
And of all my stubbornnesses, of all our struggles, one of the things that moves me most is to remove, one by one, the barriers that women face every day and that many pretend not to see.
About: implement active policies to support women
Looking at my trajectory in this Chamber, together with our women's caucus, I speak with great pride about the advances we have already made: guaranteed sanitary pads so that no poor girl misses class; paternity leave extended, because caring for a newborn is not a favor the father does, it is a right and an obligation of both; women on the boards of some of the largest companies in this Country, because competence has no gender, no sex, and it is high time that power in Brazil learned this; and the Women in History Law, which places the trajectory and perspective of women in our school curricula.
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