Even before taking office, the elected governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Luciano Zucco (PL), articulates the sending of an administrative reform to the Legislative Assembly of Rio Grande do Sul. The transition team prepares a package of projects and expects approval from state deputies before the end of the year.
The main objective of the proposals is to adapt the State structure to the Piratini Palace that Zucco promised during the electoral campaign. Before and after the October 4 election, the governor elected in the 1st round expressed his intention to reduce the first level of state management from 30 to around 15 to 20 secretariats.
The main scope of administrative reform must be the merger of secretariats. Some of the proposals are already consolidated. See below:
Agriculture + Rural Development
Public Security + Penal and Socio-educational Systems
Works + Infrastructure + Logistics
Economic Development + Innovation
Another proposal that has already been agreed is the creation of the Civil Defense Secretariat. The Eduardo Leite (PSD) government even announced a new portfolio for the area and sent the project to the Legislature, but the text was never voted on. The next administration must formalize the creation of the department, which already has a defined title.
In other areas, there is still a need for progress.
"The package is not yet ready. The transition team is designing in accordance with everything that was proposed during the campaign and post-campaign", says deputy Guilherme Pasin (PP), chosen by Zucco to lead the future government in the Legislature.
The measurements will require some adjustments. Today, the Environment area is linked to the Infrastructure department. In the future government, it should have its own portfolio. An uncertainty concerns the Reconstruction Secretariat, which can either be maintained or absorbed by the Civil Defense and Works portfolios.
The Women's Secretariat, created in the penultimate year of the Leite government, is also the subject of discussion. The folder can be maintained, but the tendency is for it to incorporate other areas. One possibility is that it will be absorbed by the Department of Social Development.
"There must be a department focused on this policy, but with other actions along with it, not just for women. Because the matter is transversal, it involves education, security and the secretariat showed that it alone did not bring results. There will probably be a women's secretariat with other actions as well. It will be an agglutination", stated the future chief secretary of the Civil House, Leandro Sonne.
The administrative reform must be forwarded to the Legislative Assembly by the end of November to be voted on before the year-end parliamentary recess, which begins on December 23rd. Zucco's main allies in the Rio Grande do Sul Parliament are now articulating the proposal.
"We've been doing this for two weeks now, a little longer. I had been asked by the elected governor to be a kind of transitional government leader", declares Pasin.
Parliamentarian re-elected for the second term and former mayor of Bento Gonçalves, Pasin states that the reduction of portfolios does not necessarily mean fewer public policies in the state.
"The government's objective is to provide lightness and agility in decision-making and also a matter of economy. We are not talking about suppressing activities, public policies. We are not talking about reducing the State's actions, but rather uniting to speed up decision-making", he argues.
