{"id":62802,"date":"2020-11-16T23:02:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T02:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=62802"},"modified":"2022-08-24T09:31:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T12:31:21","slug":"marielle-francos-seeds-blossom-in-the-2020-elections-pane-anti-racist-platform-and-the-marielle-franco-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=62802","title":{"rendered":"Marielle Franco\u2019s Seeds Blossom in the 2020 Elections: PANE and the Marielle Franco Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

This article is part of a\u00a0<\/i>series of articles on Rio de Janeiro\u2019s 2020 municipal elections<\/a><\/i>\u00a0from a favela perspective.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t wait another ten years [to have black women elected],\u201d Marielle Franco said<\/a> hours before she was assassinated in March 2018, during her mandate as a Rio de Janeiro city councilor. Two years later, the Marielle Franco Institute<\/a>, established in her memory, is putting her legacy into action by presenting the Elections <\/a>Anti-Racist Platform<\/a> (Plataforma Antirracista nas Elei\u00e7\u00f5es, PANE). It aims to encourage the entry of black women into decision-making spaces<\/a>, putting pressure on political parties to enable the highest possible number of candidacies with anti-racist agendas.<\/p>\n

Anielle Franco, Marielle\u2019s sister and leader of the Institute, explained to news site UOL<\/em><\/a> how the initiative’s first action\u2014in partnership with Educafro<\/a>, the Black Women Decide Movement<\/a> (Movimento Mulheres Negras Decidem), and the Black Coalition for Rights<\/a> (Coaliz\u00e3o Negra por Direitos)\u2014focused on fighting for financing for black candidacies. With the support of more than 10,000 people<\/a> and hundreds of organizations, on August 25 the platform had a victory: judges from the Superior Electoral Court<\/a> (TSE) approved requirements for proportional distribution<\/a> of public campaign funds (the Fundo Especial de Financiamento de Campanha, FEFC) and television ad time for black candidates, which will come into effect beginning in 2022. A second victory occurred on September 9, when Supreme Court Justice Ricardo Lewandowski decided that these quotas should be applied in the 2020 municipal elections<\/a>. This meant that in this year’s elections, political parties had to distribute their election resources for TV and radio airtime in an equitable way between white and black candidates.<\/p>\n

\"Plataforma<\/a><\/p>\n

About these new measures, Anielle wrote for the news site UOL<\/em><\/a>: \u201cGuaranteeing the necessary resources for the campaigns of black women, as well as proportional advertising time, is urgent. We, black women, know how unequal this race is and how much the lack of resources undermines even further these candidates who come from this country\u2019s vulnerable territories.\u201d The numbers corroborate her discourse: according to data from the Get\u00falio Vargas Foundation<\/a>, in 2018’s congressional elections<\/a>, although black women were 13% of total candidates, they received half as much funding: just 7% of party budgets. In contrast, 60% of funds were distributed to white male candidates, even though they represented less than half of all candidacies (43%).<\/p>\n

In 2016<\/a>, just 15.4% of Brazilian city council candidates and 4.1% of mayoral candidates were black women. In 2018, there was an increase in the number of black women<\/a> candidates, inspired by the legacy of Marielle Franco. This year, there has been a 1.4% increase in the number of black women city council candidates compared with the previous elections, as well as a timid 0.4% increase in the number of black women running for mayor nationwide. Of the 19,123 mayoral candidates registered with the TSE in this year’s elections, 13.05% (2,495) are women and just 4.5% (857) are women of color (who identify as black or brown)<\/a>. In a country in which black and brown women represent 23.4% of Brazilians<\/a>, these numbers fall short of the diversity needed to ensure representatative public policies.<\/p>\n

Launching the Marielle Franco Agenda<\/h3>\n

The Marielle Franco Institute\u2019s second initiative emerged as a solution to this electoral inequality. On September 14, Marielle\u2019s family launched the Marielle Franco Agenda<\/a> for the 2020 elections, a program to support antiracist, feminist, and working-class agendas. The issues, determined through the study of Marielle\u2019s draft laws, actions, and speeches<\/a> at city council<\/a> and from discussions with her aides, can be signed by candidates who want to commit themselves to following Marielle\u2019s social project. This is also a way of consolidating Marielle’s political vision and disincentivizing public figures from using her name without being truly aligned with what she defended. Citizens can also sign up as defenders of the Agenda, and as such hold candidates accountable.<\/p>\n

\"Agenda<\/a><\/p>\n

The site of the Marielle Franco Agenda shows 753 candidates<\/a> across Brazil who have committed to building on her legacy\u2014in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, there are 42 candidates, including the mayoral candidates Benedita da Silva<\/a> (PT<\/a>) and Renata Souza<\/a> (PSOL<\/a>), a former aide of Marielle\u2019s.<\/p>\n

The program, made up of seven social agendas\u2014Racial Justice and Defense of Life; Gender and Sexuality; the Right to the Favela; Economic Justice; Free and High-Quality Public Healthcare; Public, Free and Transformative Education; Culture, Leisure and Sport\u2014brings together the issues for which Marielle fought. \u201cIt is sad to think that she would be completing the four years of her first term, that she had a life full of dreams and projects ahead. Maybe she could have been running for mayor or backing candidates,\u201d Anielle reflected in an interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A time counter<\/a> on the Institute\u2019s website keeps track of how long has passed since the councilor\u2019s assassination. It seems to want to remind us that, in the face of pain, it is important to make time count, and continue Marielle\u2019s work rather than solely wait for slow justice.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho ordered Marielle\u2019s murder?\u201d<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This is how long we have been without answers.<\/p>\n

The Marielle Franco Institute was born to fight for justice, defend Marielle\u2019s memory, pass on her legacy, and water her seeds. We are going to need your help.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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