"If we keep the pace, we will arrive in July without money"

Rio Governor Wilson Witzel warned Tuesday that if spending measures were not pbaded, the state government could run out of money in July, according to the CBN radio.

"We are really struggling." We, if we keep up the pace, without any measure of contingency or renegotiation, we will arrive in July without money. With a deficit of more than 8 billion rand, he still has leftovers to pay, said the governor at the inauguration of the new Attorney General of the State of Rio, Marcelo Lopes

To reverse the situation,

Antônio Virgínio Fernandes, one of the general coordinators

We must act, we must accuse the expulsion, we must engage . From Sintuperj, a union representing the state universities of Rio, the governor's speech is strange.

– I do not know how the price of a barrel of oil is now, but there was a time when it rose. Thus, state revenues increased with royalties, apart from collections, with the increase in the contribution of servers to social security, that they went from (by 11%) to 14%. Christmas sales were also higher than last year. Then there was a larger collection. We had overcrowded tourists and hotels.

The coordinator of Sintuperj also fears that what has been seen in 2015 will happen again:

– Will we go back to the 2015 scenario, with a delay of three to four months salary? What will they say to people who do not have money to buy food?

Pedro Gonçalves Filho, President of SINFRERJ, Chairman of the Committee of Tax Auditors of the State of Rio, expected that it would be difficult to balance the expenses and the State revenue.

-A People know that the situation in Rio de Janeiro is complicated and will require a lot of work.

For Clara Maria Fonseca Silva, director of Sindsprev / rj, the server will again have to pay the account of state mismanagement

– If the new governor already starts the government predicting that perhaps there is no resources to pay wages is very sad. The sanitary space was one of the most affected by the crisis. Since 2015, we have already lost more than 30% of health servers. The late payment caused many people to abandon their work, others had health problems or even died.

For the President of the Civilian Police Union, Fernando Bandeira, it is not only the salary that worries, but the working conditions. According to him, the vehicles are in poor condition and outsourced cleaning employees have stopped working last year due to lack of transfer.

– The law establishes an effective force of 23,000 men and we are working today with only 9,000 workers. The civilian police no longer investigated the killing of a person or significant authority – he denounced.

million. Flag further emphasized the importance of the work of psychologists in police stations. However, the service has not been offered since March 2018:

– Many people at the police station are not accused, but a psychologist. They sorted and facilitated the work.