The leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Randolfe Rodrigues (Rede-AP), said this Thursday (23) that he managed to gather the minimum 27 signatures sufficient to create the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) of the Ministry of Education (MEC). The initiative to revive the creation of the CPI took place after an operation by the Federal Police that came to arrest former minister Milton Ribeiro.
Randolfe’s idea is to get two or three more signatures by Tuesday (28) to have a margin of safety. In April, the opposition obtained 27 signatures, but parliamentarians withdrew their support, which prevented the installation of the collegiate.
The request for the creation of the CPI states that the collegiate has the objective “to investigate irregularities and crimes committed in the allocation of public funds from the Ministry of Education and the National Fund for the Development of Education (FNDE)”.
“The complaints point out that the then minister Milton Ribeiro prioritized friends of two pastors at the request of the President of the Republic, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, in the allocation of public funds allocated to the Ministry of Education. In exchange for prioritizing and releasing public funds for the construction of schools and daycare centers, the pastors collected bribes from the mayors, requesting payments in cash, in Bibles and even in gold”, the justification states.
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Source: CNN Brasil
