Speech by Dilma Rousseff to the National PT convection, June 22, 2014, to officially accept the party's nomination as presidential candidate

Comrades,


I thank from the bottom of my heart, over this proof of confidence.
I have the soul taken the deepest gratitude and joy.
I want to turn, once again, this feeling of compromise - and also on call.
So I say:
It's time to move on, mates!
It's time to make more changes, comrades!
It's time to build more future ones militants and militants dear!
It's time to broaden the extraordinary peaceful transformation we are doing for over a decade!
Four years ago, he said at a convention like this one:
"Lula has changed Brazil and Brazil want to continue changing. The continuity that Brazil wants is the continuity of change."
In my inaugural address, I said:
"We have a huge challenge because the country is another, because it changed the level, and all the people that changes level want more and better. He does not want and can not go back. "
Today, these words still well today.
They demonstrate strategic vision and bring a strong sense of accomplishment.
Brazil wants to keep changing the hands of those who have proven ability to profoundly transform the country and improve the lives of our people.
We - the PT and the allied parties - had competence to implement, in the last 11 years, the most extensive and vigorous process of changing the country's history.
That for the first time, put the people as protagonist;
Which removed 36 million Brazilians out of poverty;
It took 42 million for the middle class;
They did, in just over a decade, the greatest reduction of social inequality in our history.
And that can not stop.
Comrades,
I want to talk to you about the great battles we face.
If the election of President Lula hope overcame fear, in this election the truth must overcome lies and disinformation; our future project should win those whose purpose is to return to the past.
President Lula: When 12 years ago, you took office, Brazil was one.
When the left, Brazil was another, completely different and much better. Indeed, the hope was, ultimately, overcome fear
When I took office, the world was one. Before long, the world was different.
The truth is that the international economic and financial crisis threatening not only the stability of the world's largest economies, but much of the world political and economic system by increasing unemployment, abolishing rights and sow despair.
However, Brazil, this time did not give up, do not hit or knelt!
The Brazil could defend, like few others, most importantly, employment and worker's salary - and was the country that best won this battle!
Before our governments, Brazil has defended the crises arrochando workers' wages, increasing interest rates to stratospheric levels, increasing unemployment, slowing the growth by selling public assets.
With this disastrous policy alienated the country's future!
From us, no.
For the first time in our history, the worker did not pay the price of the crisis.
While in the rest of the world, devoured crisis since 2008, 60 million jobs, here were created 11 million jobs with a formal contract.
We kept to the minimum wage appreciation policy and readjust the benefit of the Bolsa Família always above inflation.
We were the country that won the fight against poverty.
What has consolidated the largest public housing program and what it is doing some of the world's largest infrastructure projects.
The country that by strengthening Petrobras, discovered the pre-salt and created the sharing model.
This new Brazil could deploy higher professional education program in our history.
He managed to expand opportunities for women, young people and blacks;
Lead more doctors to 3,800 municipalities;
Improve the quality of education at all levels;
And accelerate the progress of our economic and social infrastructure.
We can do this because we never forget our deepest commitments.
Whenever the difficulties increased and the government received pressure from all sides, I repeated to myself:
I was not elected to betray the trust of my people, not to Arrochar worker's salary!
I was not elected to sell public assets, begging money from the IMF, and put again the country to its knees, as they did!
I was elected, yes, to rule by foot and with your head held high!
Comrades,
We did a lot, but we need to do much more, because people's needs are still great.
As much as our decade has won the perverse legacy of lost decades we have inherited, she could not have solved problems that have dragged on for centuries.
The people want more and better - and so do we.
We now have a rare opportunity in history: we create the conditions to defend the great results of an extraordinary cycle and at the same time, we have strength to announce the birth of a new development cycle.
This new cycle will keep the two basic pillars of our model - the economic strength and breadth of social policies - and bring even greater advances in improving the infrastructure and public services, the quality of employment, technological development and increasing productivity of our economy.
This new cycle will make the decisive entry of Brazil in the knowledge society, the basic pillar is a transformation in the quality of education.
And no beating around the bush: the transformation of education is only consolidated with the full and real appreciation of the teacher - with better pay and better training.
We have already started to do this and we will accelerate much more when they join the 75% of oil royalties and 50% of the surplus in the pre-salt oil. All for education.
Comrades,
The last eleven years, the country witnessed the highest growth of employment, greater appreciation of the salary and the highest income distribution in its history.
The worker's salary grew by 70% above inflation and generate more than 20 million new formal jobs.
It was also the longest period of low inflation in Brazilian history.
In the new cycle that we build it is necessary to consolidate and further deepen these achievements.
A breakthrough will improve the quality of employment.
This assumes better technical vocational education and training, innovation and technological development. The result will be a strong increase in productivity of our economy
To improve the training of Brazilians, implanted Pronatec: the higher technical education program and qualification of our history.
It also continues the extraordinary work of Lula, consolidating the Enem, expanding the Prouni and Fies, creating new universities and technical schools.
I implemented the quota policy for public schools and the Science without Borders, the largest scholarship program abroad in our history.
The Pronatec already has 7.4 million registrations.
An achievement that will not stop there!
Last Wednesday, we launched the Pronatec-2 that, from 2015, will expand to 12 million of these jobs, distributed in 220 technical courses and 646 training courses, all free.
In 2018, we formed 20 million Brazilians.
Comrades,
Are so broad challenges, proposals and the tasks we have, which is more appropriate to call what we propose to build a "new historical cycle" - not just "new cycle of development" - which we intend to build together with the Brazilian people.
This cycle assumes an educational transformation, a technological revolution and a revolution in digital access. At the same time, a reform of public services, urban reform, political reform and a federal reform.
This new historical cycle is already being gestated in part by the programs and projects that are underway, such as the CAP, the My House, My Life, Pronatec, the Science Without Borders and major investments in infrastructure.
The My House, My Life is actually a strong pillar of the great urban reform plan that have already begun to deploy.
As are the important underlying mobility projects running in major Brazilian cities, totaling 143 billion of real resources.
Along with all investments in basic sanitation and access to water supply.
During the campaign, we will be able to discuss and deepen, with Brazilian society, the National Transformation Plan, and all their set of reforms that will produce a new development leap for Brazil.
An important part of the plan is Brazil No Bureaucracy program. No country in the world rose to development without break the shackles of bureaucracy.
To move forward, we must make the Brazilian state, not a minimal state, but an efficient, transparent and modern state.
Another key program is the Broadband for All, with which we promote universal access of all Brazilians at a cheap internet service, quickly and safely.
The program requires both the expansion of optical fiber infrastructure and the latest equipment, such as using the Internet as a tool for education, recreation and public participation tool, especially in government decisions.
The urban reform we imagine encompasses not only the re-discussion of the use of urban space - and improving the supply of home ownership and sanitation - but also decisive changes in mobility, in public transport and security.
Since the reform of public services will pay particular attention to improving the quality of health.
Did the SEMC, the Upas, the free of drugs here has People's Pharmacy, the Stork Network and More Doctors, a strategic program that strengthens the NHS and therefore the basic health care.
We have worked hard on, but the health services have to suffer, yet, a deeper transformation to get to meet the needs of Brazilians.
Comrades,
A National Transformation Plan of this scale can only be realized with a comprehensive reform, able to redefine the roles of federal agencies.
It is no coincidence that some of the public services that have more disabilities are those interface between federal, state and local governments.
It needs to revisit and redefine new roles and functions for the federal entities, because the increasing complexity of our problems requires this change.
It is important that the redefinition of the federal pact integrates the context of major political reforms that Brazil needs.
This reform is key to improving the quality of politics and public administration.
Social transformation produced by our governments laid the foundations for the promotion of a great democratic and political change in Brazil.
Our mission now is to give life to this democratic and political change, without stopping, ever the march of great social transformation in progress.
I see no other way to achieve political reform that popular participation, mobilizing all sectors of society through a plebiscite.
Comrades,
Our National Transformation Plan will be the expansion of the large set of changes we are making, along with the Brazilian people.
It means more opportunities for Brazilians in our territory and more opportunities for Brazil in the world.
Opportunity has been our keyword.
Before the PT and the allied parties came to power, the opportunities for Brazilian climb and grow in life were slim, slim to none.
Today there are many!
We will continue transforming Brazil into a country of opportunity for all, especially for the majority historically marginalized groups: women, blacks and young people.
As a woman - and first female president - I know that equal opportunities for men and women is an essential principle of democracy and a powerful stimulus to a nation's progress.
I know that this task of continuing changing Brazil, counting on the support of unsurpassed combative militancy of the PT, and all our allied parties.
It is fortunate and a privilege to count on you!
It is fortunate and privileged to have been a deputy of the stature of Michel Temer - a statesman and a companion of every hour.
I am now a ruler even more mature and willing to face challenges.
Ready to listen and propose new ideas.
I had the challenge to succeed a living legend.
A giant which in many areas has done more in eight years than other governments in 80.
I need four more years to complete a work up to the dreams and challenges of Brazil.
To do this, we need support from the Brazilian and especially this great militancy.
We need to go to the streets to explain what we did and what we can do.
We need to have a peculiar conversation with the younger ones, because they could not witness the whole process of transformation that Brazil spent the last eleven years.
The campaign is for this: to remember the past and, above all, explain the future.
But our campaign has to be a celebration of peace.
I never made politics with hatred.
Even when they tried to destroy me physically and emotionally, through unspeakable physical violence, I continued to love my country and never kept hatred of my tormentors. So we won the struggle for democracy.
I'm like the Brazilian people.
I have no rancor, but not lower my head. Do not insult, but not me twice. Agrido not, but do not get on my knees to anyone.
Do not waste my time hating my enemies because I have a country to govern a people to represent, a popular empowerment model to perform and protect those who try to block it.
Our campaign must be, above all, a high-spirited party.
Below mediocrity! Below pessimism and low mood!
Brazil's big victories are built with the leaven of joy and optimism.
See how the World Cup is giving a colossal rout in pessimistic.
Let us dream, comrades!
Let us dream heroic and boundless dreams.
First of all, we love Brazil and our countrymen, with all the force of the heart.
Do not let hatred in our souls prosper.
Recolhamos stones to throw at us and transform into bricks to make more homes My House, My Life.
Recolhamos the apocryphal leaflets with false reports, and transform in textbooks and learning materials to ensure quality education for our people.
Recolhamos the insults and rudeness and transform into verses of songs of hope in the future of Brazil.

With the strength of the people, we will win again. Long live the Brazil! Long live the Brazilian people.
