The National Congress overturned Jair Bolsonaro’s vetoes on culture incentive laws, created by the legislature to help the sector overcome the effects of the pandemic. The Aldir Blanc 2 and Lei Paulo Gustavo laws were approved with a vote in plenary this Tuesday (5/7), after postponements and under pressure from the artistic class.
The two laws pay tribute to Brazilian artists who died from covid-19 contamination. One of the greatest songwriters in the country, Aldir Blanc died in May 2020 at the age of 73, while actor, screenwriter and producer Paulo Gustavo died on May 4, 2021, at the age of 42.
The Aldir Blanc Law 2 provides for annual transfers of R $ 3 billion from the Union to states and municipalities over a five-year period, starting in 2023. It is inspired by the law passed by Congress in 2020 which guaranteed resources for the sector during the pandemic , a moment in which cultural spaces closed completely. The Paulo Gustavo law, on the other hand, is of an emergency nature and allocates R $ 3.86 billion to states and municipalities, of which R $ 2.79 billion would be dedicated to the audiovisual area, a sector that gave birth to Paulo Gustavo.
Both laws have had the support, since their conception, of state and municipal culture secretaries, as well as artists, who have collaborated with Congress since the drafting of the projects. They became necessary after the government created difficulties never seen before in the sector, in a dismantling policy that also went through a reformulation of the Rouanet law, explicitly aiming to increase the difficulties in accessing funds, with (potentially ideological) filters. and new restrictions. in the midst of a pandemic.
Since Monday (7/4), actors, Secretaries of Culture, producers and other industry agents have mobilized an agenda of debates and demonstrations in Brasilia to put pressure on parliamentarians to overturn the vetoes. Artists in the capital include Amir Haddad, Johnny Massaro, Vera Fischer, Babu Santana and Letícia Spiller.
“We are here for the recognition that, without political commitment to the right to culture and art, our people are at risk,” said Vera Fischer, at an event organized by the Culture Commission, as colleagues threw the hashtag. ” DerrubaVetosdaCultura “to ask for the overthrow of the vetoes – the case of the singers Marina Lima and Daniela Mercury.
In addition to celebrities, waiters from different states brought emotional accounts of small-scale artists who were able to put food on the table with the passage of the first round of the Aldir Blanc Act.
“Making the federative experience of the Aldir Blanc Law perennial can bring Brazilian culture to levels never imagined before,” said Fabrício Noronha, Secretary of Culture of Espírito Santo and president of the National Forum of Secretaries of State of Culture, on the Aldir Law Blanc 2. “A future is paved in the strength of our diversity and resilience and all this in the darkest and most violent time of portfolio administration in the federal government,” he added.
Source: Terra
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