The president re-elected Dilma Rousseff announced yesterday as will be the ministerial composition of his second government. The name of Aldo Rebelo (PCdoB) was appointed to head the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI). Rebelo is a journalist and was elected federal deputy for five consecutive terms (1989-2011). Is in charge of sports folder since 2011 and will replace the former rector of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Clelio Campolina Diniz.
In 2011, Rebelo called attention when he proposed the vote of the Forest Code reform bill, which allows the cultivation of riparian areas, decreases the conservation of flora on river banks, free from fines farmers who deforested and releases the cultivation at the top of hills. At the time, the researcher Antonio Donato Nobre, of the National Institute of Amazonian Research and the National Institute for Space Research, Rebelo accused of giving in to the agribusiness lobby ignoring what the scientific community had to add to the discussion.
A bill introduced in 1999 restricted the use of foreign words in the English language, banning foreign words in commercials, official documents, media outlets and store signage. With the project, words such as “computer” and “mouse” could be replaced by “authorizing” and “mouse”.
When the debate on the new Forest Code took over the news, Aldo Rebelo confessed that ran a political task and had no experience in the field. With regard to science and technology, its function does not seem very different, as also it is not a concept recognized in the area.
In one of his terms as congressman, Rebelo proposed a law that prohibit the “adoption, by any public agency at all levels, of any technological development is sparing hand labor without proof that the social benefits earned by deploying outweigh the social costs of unemployment generated”. Only 11 years later, the project was dropped by to have aged and “lost its reason for being.”
The project presented by the then deputy in 1994 certainly did not provide the technological development that took us by 2014. Require the implementation of technological resources that result in unemployment outweighs the social cost of unemployment generated is difficult to perform. The criteria of “social costs” are debatable, and the implementation of new technologies that make services before very limited (such as ATM), the discussion is further complicated.
The history of Aldo Rebelo, playing roles important in areas that he has no experience, tends to generate confidence on the Brazilian sector of science and technology, whose ministry in 2014 had approved budget of $ 9.5 billion. Like all other new ministers, Aldo Rebelo take office on 1 January, after the inauguration of President Dilma.
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