Businessman Mauro Aguiar, director of Colégio Bandeirantes, one of the most traditional schools in São Paulo, believes that changing the Minister of Education at this point in the government will only cause trouble.
This Monday (28), Minister Milton Ribeiro was fired from his post to try to reduce the wear and tear of the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government in the crisis in which the ministry was involved after the revelation of indications of an informal scheme to obtain funds involving two pastors. without public office.
“There are many good things that were approved by the National Education Council, such as the new Enem, and that need to be moved forward. It was a beautiful approval. This change will only create turmoil. In the end, it harms education more than it benefits This fight has nothing to do with education, with what is best for the students. This is a political fight, a sickle fight there in Brasília. The environment there is not for amateurs”, says Aguiar.
In the businessman’s opinion, the situation is absolutely reprehensible but nothing new. Aguiar says that there has always been lobbying within the MEC, regardless of the government.
“To get anything from the Ministry of Education, first, you have to hire an office in Brasília. To get inside the Ministry. [agora] the ministry is equipped, no. He was always equipped”, says the businessman.
Aguiar says that he has had difficulty in approving the company’s own projects in the past due to lack of access.
“In the Ministry of Education, in other governments, there has always been a need that, in order to approve projects, you need political influence. This is nothing new. When we had to approve our BandTec, which was a superior course for highly evaluated by the evaluation teams, we lost a year, with everything invested. Because we didn’t have it, it was the PT government, and we didn’t have access to any member of what was called the government bench in the Legislative. .
He says he believes that the current crisis involves disputes for space within the government itself.
“Clearly, it seems to me like friendly fire, a fight within the very groups supporting the government that felt less able to influence than those pastors”, he says.
The minister’s situation worsened on Monday last week, after the revelation by the sheet of the audio in which Milton Ribeiro states that the government prioritizes municipalities whose requests for granting funds were negotiated by Pastors Gilmar and Arilton.
In the recording, the minister also says that he responds to a request from Bolsonaro and mentions requests for support that would supposedly be directed towards building churches.
The role of the pastors with the MEC was previously revealed by the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo.
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