UP Convention confirms Camila Falcão's candidacy for the government of Pernambuco in the 2026 elections — Photo: Mariane Monteiro/g1
Historian and professor Camila Falcão, known as Professor Camila (UP), candidate for the government of Pernambuco, presented proposals ranging from the end of transfers to Social Organizations (OSs) to actions to combat the drought. The commitments are part of the government program presented by the candidacy for the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) in the 2026 elections.
All candidates for the state Executive are required to present a government plan to register their candidacy with the Electoral Court. The documents are available on the TSE's Divulgacand data platform. g1 brings a summary of the government programs of the eight candidates for the government of Pernambuco in 2026.
Called "Government Plan for Pernambuco", Professor Camila's government program has eight pages divided into seven themes.
Among the themes presented by the candidate are popular participation in the budget, investments, economy, public health, combating drought, transport and public policies for youth. The issue of public security did not gain specific space in the government plan presented to the TSE.
Among the main promises of Professor Camila's government are the creation of a regional participatory budget, which reaches all micro-regions of Pernambuco, the extinction of transport concessions and the charging of tolls on state highways.
The government plan also defends the creation of "popular councils" of workers and highlights the end of transfers to Social Organizations that maintain the administration of state hospitals, in addition to proposing that the Companhia Pernambucana de Saneamento (Compesa) return to being 100% state-owned. Among the most used words in the document are “combat” and “end”.
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Check below the summary of the axes of the Popular Unity candidate’s government program.
Popular participation in the budget
First theme presented by Professor Camila's government program. One of the great highlights of this section is the creation of popular councils made up of workers.
According to the document, "Instead of allocating billions to pay the public debt to bankers or spending millions on advertisements and shows, the state government will prioritize popular councils formed by workers and movements such as the Movimento nos Bairros, Vilas e Favelas (MLB) and Movimento Luta de Classes (MLC) to deliberate on investments in sanitation, transport and daycare centers", says the text.
Among the main promises of this theme are:
Creation of popular councils formed by workers and social movements;
Expansion of the University of Pernambuco (UPE), reform of schools with quality meals and valued teachers and staff;
Expand medical care in hospitals and health centers and value professionals.
Investments for the entire state
On this topic, the candidate presents one of her main proposals: the creation of a regional participatory budget, which would reach the participation of all 19 micro-regions of the state, according to the document.
Among the main promises of this theme are:
End of regionalized private consortia, extinction of inter-municipal sanitation and water consortia designed to deliver services to the private sector;
Participatory regional budget, with the creation of popular assemblies across all macro-regions of the state;
Popular assemblies in all 19 micro-regions of the state, decentralizing resources that have historically been concentrated in the Metropolitan Region of Recife;
Creation of regionalized public work fronts to manage and execute structural works, generating employment in the localities.
Strengthening the economy across the state
On this topic, the candidate highlights policies to combat exploitation at work. Professor Camila also proposes support for small producers, but does not detail how these policies would be implemented.
Among the main promises of this theme are:
Carry out rigorous inspections of clothing factories and businesses to ensure payment of FGTS, overtime and provision of PPE;
Break with financing directed to agribusiness and large agribusinesses. State resources and credit must be channeled towards family farming and to guarantee decent infrastructure (coverage, security, sanitation) for marketers and small local traders;
Articulating for the Pernambuco Agronomic Institute (IPA) to also have responsibility for Technical Assistance and Rural Extension (ATER) for small farmers, quilombola and indigenous communities and popular cooperatives.
Public health
On this topic, among Professor Camila's promises are the strengthening of the Unified Health Service (SUS) and the internalization of the state's health.
In the document presented to the TSE, the party declares that "UP defends the end of the transfer of public funds to private social organizations (OSs) that manage health", says the text.
Among the main promises of this theme are:
Direct state revenue to the construction and equipping of regional specialty hospitals in the Agreste, including therapies for atypical children, eliminating the need for forced displacement of patients to the capital;
Guarantee the hiring of doctors, nurses and technical teams through statutory public competitions with decent salaries, establishing professionals within the state;
Public policies to support the health of the LGBTQIA+ population: expanding access to Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PREP) and Post-Exposure Prophylaxis for the transvestite and transsexual population (PEP) and human rights education for health professionals.
Fighting drought
In this section of the Popular Unity government plan, the highlight is the promise to renationalize Compesa. In December 2025, the government of Pernambuco held an auction that defined the partial concession of the state's water supply and sewage services.
In UP's proposal, the concession would be reversed in the event of the candidate's victory. Among other proposals, the government program talks about creating cisterns and irrigation systems.
Among the main promises of this theme are:
Total nationalization of Compesa, with the immediate interruption of handing over the water company to private consortiums;
Massive investment of direct state resources in expanding distribution networks and pipelines to the interior;
Implementation of state programs for the construction of cisterns, small dams and irrigation systems aimed exclusively at agrarian reform settlements and family farming producers, combating the effects of water speculation and coronelism.
Quality, public and free transport
The UP government plan advocates the end of the highway concession model and also the stop of toll collection on state highways.
Among the main promises of this theme are:
Extinction of the model of highway concessions and toll charges, which increase the cost of living and the flow of production for small farmers and market traders;
Creation of state work fronts, carrying out asphalt recovery works and maintenance of interior roads through strengthening the Department of Highways (DER).
Public policies for rural youth
The last theme presented by Professor Camila's government plan includes proposals in defense of free education and job creation.
Among the main promises of this theme are:
Fight against the scrapping of public schools and expansion of places at public universities in the interior;
Promote formal jobs through state investments in popular housing (urban reform) and sanitation;
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