Firjan cites data from the National Treasury and includes Rio Grande do Sul among the biggest deficits in 2024

Rio Grande do Sul is one of the five states that will have the largest budget deficit in 2024, behind Rio of January (R$ 10.4 billion), Minas Gerais (R$ 4.2 billion), Ceará (R$ 3.9 billion) and Paraná, with R$ 3.5 billion, points out a study by Firjan (Federation of Industries of State of Rio of January). According to the study, the budget deficit of the 27 units of the Federation could reach R$29.3 billion in 2024. The study cites data from the STN (National Treasury Secretariat). According to the survey, 22 States and the Federal District are expected to end the year with negative accounts. The study states that expenses will increase by 7%, while revenues are expected to grow by only 3.2%.

Retirements generate a gap of R$326 billion in the budget

The Federal Government also finds itself grappling with a future time bomb: in 2024, the Social Security accounts, which pay pensions from the General Social Security Regime, are expected to show a hole of R$326.2 billion (2.5% of GDP ), according to projections from the 2023 General Balance Sheet of the Union, released by the National Treasury. If no change in the actuarial calculation is approved, it will be the party of the big banks: the government to haveR$25.5 trillion will have to be financed with loans to cover the total shortfall. The latest pension reform, approved by the National Congress in 2021, which was supposed to alleviate the social security revenue crisis for a long time, ended up being distorted by the many amendments included in the original text.

Agrishow welcomes Alckmin and government delegation behind closed doors

The opening ceremony of this year’s Agrishow this Sunday (28), in Ribeirão Preto was without an audience, with closed doors, exclusively for the press and exhibitors, to welcome vice-president Geraldo Alckimin, accompanied by ministers Carlos Fávaro (Agriculture and Livestock ), Paulo Teixeira (Agrarian Development and Family Farming) and Luciana Santos (Science, Technology and Innovation), who announced government actions for the agricultural sector. Upon leaving, Geraldo Alckmin declined to comment on the opening of the fair without the public present. This Monday, Agrishow, which will be held April 29 The May 3opens the gates to the public and will welcome former president Jair Bolsonaro.

Bolsonaro gathered a crowd in Ribeirão Preto

While the opening ceremony of Agrishow was taking place behind closed doors, the governors of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans), and of Goiás, Ronaldo Caiado (União), participated in a demonstration in support of former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) in Ribeirão Preto in this Sunday. Earlier in the morning, the former president participated in a motorbike in Ribeirão Preto. He paraded through the city streets in a vehicle, accompanied by Caiado.

After being impeached, mayor manages to be elected again

The former mayor of São Francisco de Assis, Paulo Roberto Cortellini (MDB), who was elected in 2020, but had his mandate revoked due to vote buying and abuse of power, was elected again in this Sunday, in the municipality’s supplementary elections and may end its administration. As he did not have his political rights revoked, he gained the right to contest the election. Cortellini was elected with 53.22% of the votes and his term runs until December of this year.

Medical student convicted of defrauding quota system

A student was ordered to pay compensation to Unirio, Federal University of Rio of January, for defrauding the quota system, reports the electronic newspaper Conjur. The Federal Public Ministry, in the files of the Public Civil Action (ACP 5030155-28.2020.4.02.5101) reports that a student of the medicine course at Unirio in 2017, to enter the federal university, made use of the affirmative action system aimed at black people and mixed-race people with a gross income of up to 1.5 minimum wages, claiming to have black genotypic traits inherited from their paternal great-grandfather and mixed-race family ancestry from their maternal family. The student to haveto return to the public coffers the amount of R$8,800 for material damages and R$10,000 for individual moral damages caused to Unirio. You must also pay R$10,000 for collective moral damages allocated to the Fund for the Defense of Diffuse Rights.

Flavio Dino was white and turned brown

A controversial case in this area involved the former governor of Maranhão, former senator and Minister of Justice, and current STF minister Flávio Dino. He declared to the Superior Electoral Court, in 2022, a mixed race or color, different from the registration made in the majority elections in 2014, when he was elected for his first term in the Government of Maranhão. At the time, when registering his candidacy for governor with the Electoral Court, he filled in the color and race field as “white”. Until it changed eight years later, to “parda”.