Pre-candidates for the Presidency talk about the rules for releasing Education resources via FNDE

Former Minister of Education Milton Ribeiro was released this Thursday (23), after a decision by judge Ney Belo, of the Federal Regional Court of the 1st Region. He had been preventively arrested on Wednesday (22), on suspicion of influence peddling and passive corruption in the release of resources via the National Education Development Fund (FNDE).

The federal autarchy is responsible for implementing the educational policies of the MEC.

The Federal Police is investigating Ribeiro’s involvement in directing funds from the portfolio to city halls based on negotiations carried out by evangelical pastors Arilton Moura and Gilmar Santos, who do not hold positions in the federal government. Several mayors claim that they asked for bribes to free up resources

THE CNN asked the pre-candidates for the Presidency of the Republic what they think about the rules for releasing education resources via the FNDE.

Check out the answers below:

Lula (EN):

The release of resources from the FNDE must follow the legislation and have its objective of financing education guaranteed.

Jair Bolsonaro (PL):

The pre-candidate has not responded at the time of publication.

Ciro Gomes (PDT):

The pre-candidate has not responded at the time of publication.

André Janones (Avant):

The pre-candidate has not responded at the time of publication.

Simone Tebet (MDB):

The pre-candidate has not responded at the time of publication.

Felipe d’Avila (New):

The pre-candidate has not responded at the time of publication.

Luciano Bivar (Union Brazil):

The FNDE has a very important mission, which is to manage and transfer funds to states and municipalities in the area of ​​education. The problem lies in the mismanagement that has been done.

It is necessary to increase the rigor in the inspection, mainly of the funds transferred in a discretionary way.

The criteria for releasing the money also need to be more stringent and strictly technical.

Vera Lucia (PSTU):

FNDE resources must be released equally, having as a parameter the needs of each municipality. These rules must be built with the participation of education workers, who must democratically build educational plans.

What we are seeing today in the Bolsonaro government is a business desk around FNDE funds, as we have seen in other funds, such as for the purchase of tractors and ambulances, always directed to its allies. This is an old coronelista form that has been repeated for years in our country and needs to be denounced and stopped.

Public funds cannot be exchanged for political support, but invested to meet the needs of our people.

Pablo Marcal (Pros):

Quality education is one of the pillars for the transformation of the nation. We are not going to transform Brazil without transforming the mentality of the people to be rulers and the main target is the future generations, the children. We recently saw in the press that the Federal Government transfers 50 cents a month per child for preschool food. What future do we want for the country and what are we doing to achieve it?

It is obvious that we have structural problems in education and the system for transferring funds from the FNDE does not minimally meet these needs. In fact, in the format in which it is, since the PT and FHC governments it does serve the interests of some. Due to the transfer format without transparency from the allocation criteria, FNDE funds are as coveted as the positions that can distribute them. The result is the allotment of these positions among allied political parties that, without shame or transparency, reap the dividends of the distribution of resources by criteria that are not the public interest.

It is necessary to create technical criteria for the application of resources in order to meet only the needs of students. While we privilege the political component and not the technical one, we will have literate children who cannot read, cannot do basic math and cannot interpret news about corruption in the country. The question we ask is: who is the FNDE good for, the students or the parties that govern these resources? The people will respond at the polls.

Jose Maria Eymael (DC):

The FNDE is a valuable instrument for supporting education in Brazil. It is absolutely unacceptable that he should be a victim of corruption of all kinds. On the other hand, authors of misconduct in relation to the objectives and principles of the FNDE must be punished with extreme rigor.

Sofia Manzano (PCB):

The pre-candidate did not respond at the time of publication.

Leonardo Pericles (UP):

This action by the PF makes it clear that the nominations, releases of funds, appointments made by this government are all linked around corruption. No wonder the allegations and audios that have been leaked over the last few months about Moro for indication, the purchase of bibles with pastors’ faces, among others, represent a clear link between public resources and private interests. We defend the distribution of National Fund resources based on established technical criteria, with appreciation of the National Education Council and the State Education Councils, which monitor and accompany the development of schools across the country. And for that, so that we can establish the mechanisms to correct the distortions – there are still many schools in Brazil that do not even have access to sanitation, without water and sewage. A distribution of resources cannot ignore these problems because it is guided by the interests of certain politicians, pastors, or anyone else. We need to build, from a detailed survey of the National Council of Education, together with the state and municipal councils (there are councils in the three spheres), which are the real demands that schools have. Use as a basis the School Census that collects all this information if the school has a library, a laboratory, a cafeteria, the entire school infrastructure is monitored through this Census, and with this in hand, make the decisions for the distribution of resources, and not the from the interests of parliamentarians or the interests of pastors, as we have seen in this last period. So, this action by the Federal Police only confirms the allegations that were established in the last period of how much corruption is ingrained in the Bolsonaro government and how much the MEC was one of the target sectors of all this, the handing over of the direction of the FNE in the hands of the ‘centrão ‘ was living proof that the government is guided by a policy of corruption and not of valuing education.

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