A day after the future civilian minister, Onyx Lorenzoni, said that the National Indian Foundation (Funai) would be incorporated by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MPLS), President-elect Jair Bolsonaro said on Tuesday 04), that the organ should be under the umbrella of the new Ministry of Citizenship.
According to the president-elect, the Ministry of Citizenship will also add to the areas of social development, sport and culture, under the command of federal deputy Osmar Terra (MDB-RS).
“FUNAI goes somewhere. For Agriculture, I do not think so, you can go there for Social Action [in reference to the Ministry of Citizenship],” the president-elect told a news conference.
According to the “Agência Brasil”, in the meeting that had earlier with the bench of deputies of the MDB, Bolsonaro said, according to reports, that it intends to review the policy of demarcation of indigenous lands and quilombola areas in the country.
Environment
The president-elect also defended a new environmental policy and again criticized the delay in granting licenses for infrastructure and agribusiness enterprises.
“The Ministry of the Environment has to do with everything, not just with the environment, obviously. But it has to do with the infrastructure, the licenses, it has to do with agribusiness.”
Bolsonaro then added: “You want to make a small hydroelectric plant, it can not take eight years and maybe get a license. This has to be faster. The [ministry of] the Environment is going to fit the reality of the need of the Brazilian people and the environment “.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.