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The widow of Marielle Franco, the architect Mônica Benício (34), managed to be elected councilor for the PSOL of Rio de Janeiro with 22 thousand votes. In a telephone conversation with G1, Mônica Benício says that she will always have the symbolic presence of her ex-girlfriend.
“My story can never be untangled from Marielle’s memory. And not only because of the political work that we have always done, which I have always believed and built with her.” – said Mônica Benício – “What I have with Marielle, in addition to love, is political affinity. My commitment is, in addition to representing all the projects that Marielle has set up, is to have a city committed to the lives of women, to the LGBT struggle and to the anti-racist agenda “.
Mônica Benício says that she will defend the guidelines related to LGBTQIA+, black people, women’s lives, but that her main commitment is to slum residents.
“This is my main cause. My agenda for life and work has always been the right to the city, from the perspective of the slum-dweller. Placing the slum and the slum-dweller at the center of the public policy debate. It is from this place that I I speak and from this place I will play my mandate. Slum is a city “, argued.
When she learned that she was elected with 22,900 votes, Mônica Benício said she couldn’t even sleep. In addition, the day before the election, she took the opportunity to go to the São Francisco Xavier cemetery, in Caju, North Zone of Rio, where Marielle Franco’s body is buried.
“I try to keep in my routine every Wednesday to go to the cemetery, but because that is my ritual. I go to see if everything is ok, and all right. It is not a big question in my head. the first thing I do, and the last thing, is to talk to her. As always. “
When asked if her work will continue Marielle‘s, she says: “After my result, democracy won over barbarism. Democracy won over violence. Today, we win. Today, Marielle will not be interrupted.”
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