City for Winners Cabreúva 2022

Interview
INTERVIEW
ANTONIO CARLOS MANGINI
MAYOR OF CABREÚVA
nominations, offices, motions and proposals, adding up to
more than 1820 in total. Also as a councilor, he brought
many millions in amendments that benefited the city with
asphalt, park renovations, hospital equipment, vehicles and
administration costs. In 2020, I was elected mayor and
here we are working to bring a lot of news to the city. This
experience I have acquired over the years and the relationship
I have built with various government authorities give me
confidence that we can together raise the quality of life of
Cabreuvians, through infrastructure works, quality of health
care, investments in education, sports, culture and leisure.
Cabreúva has an enormous tourist potential, which our
management is giving due value. The industries also realized
the amount of advantages that our city offers. We have water,
energy, excellent logistics and many business opportunities,
which have brought investments to the city, generating jobs
and income. I usually say that Cabreúva has all the best and,
with good management, doing it right, our city will certainly
emerge among the best in the state of SP.
Throughout your experience in
politics, you had several important achievements.
Which ones do you highlight and what is the feeling
of seeing the city enjoy them?
Since the beginning of my political career, I managed to
bring parliamentary amendments that greatly helped the
public administration of Cabreúva. I believe that they were
all important, as they benefited the population in some way.
Whatever the destination of the money invested: health,
education, leisure, infrastructure or security, the important
thing is that it reached the population and brought benefits.
When I walk around the city there is always somewhere I
go and remember what was done there. Whether with the
help of government authorities or city entrepreneurs, who
often also help us through donations. I am a person who has
always actively participated in popular actions, I have always
been involved with people who get their hands dirty. It’s an
accomplishment to see the before and after. We have already
painted schools, arranged gardens, promoted championships
and many other things, which collaborate with our city
and the population that lives in it. Now, as mayor at the
beginning of his term, the number of amendments that
reached Cabreúva exceeded our expectations. Thanks to the
work we are developing, our city has everything to grow and
develop with quality. Some examples are: Casa da Juventude,
which will bring knowledge and opportunities to young
people seeking professional qualifications; the Elderly Day
Center, which will bring more quality to our senior citizens;
the long-awaited duplication of the Rodovia Vereador José
de Moraes, Serrinha, which thanks to the good relationship
with the state government, we managed to make this dream
a reality. Finally, we have many other achievements. We
asphalted entire neighborhoods and resurfaced streets and
avenues, in addition to the two side roads in Guacuri and in
the Caí neighborhood, adding up to more than 120 km of
asphalt. Many works will take place during my term, such as
You have an admirable trajectory in
public life. How was it until reaching the post of Mayor
of Cabreúva and what teachings were brought from
there to here?
I started my career as a Military Police in 1987. I came
to Cabreúva in 1988 where I worked for many years in the
corporation. Among my duties, as a policeman, were always
the matter of maintaining order and good coexistence in
the neighborhood. This is how my relationship with the city
began. I was very well received here. Cabreúva is a city that
takes care of its children at birth and also those at heart. In
2002 I participated in a PM program called Community
Policing. This program had the objective of bringing the
military police closer to the Cabreuvana families and, thus,
interceding in the neighborhood’s demands, making the
interface between the citizen and the public power. I also
participated coordinating another social program called
“Raio de Sol”, which aimed to take children and adolescents
off the streets, giving them the possibility of learning through
sport, culture and education.
I realized that I could go further and started to help these
families with other needs that the programs I participated
and coordinated did not address. That’s how I started the
desire to enter public life. I like people and am very happy to
help them. The feeling of seeing that you made a difference
in the lives of these people who need it most is priceless.
It’s very satisfying. I did it and continue to do it from the
heart, in addition to doing good for others, it’s good for me
too. I wake up every day with a lot of energy and I’m sure
the reason for that is satisfaction in making a difference
in people’s lives. I became well known for this and made
many friends, including here I met my wife Val Mangini
and we had three children: Gabriela, 26, Matheus, 22,
and Maria, 20. In 2004 I ran for councilor and was
elected to my first election and became mayor. Re-elected
councilor in 2016, I was the councilor who had the most
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