Jornal do Brasil – Rio

The Secretary of the Civil House, Paulo Messina, resigned yesterday, demonstrating that the discomfort with the Secretary of Education, Cesar Benjamin, did not end when the two signed an official note, stating that their differences had been exceeded in May of this year. Sources heard by JORNAL BRASIL said that the secretary of the Civil Chamber was angry because Benjamin reportedly declared in municipal network units that Messina was responsible for two parliamentary commissions of inquiry in the House.

The press release of his adviser, however, cites "incessant attacks", without specifying which ones: "As a result of incessant attacks that have suffered the Secretary of Education, despite the agreement signed by both, at the request of the mayor, on May 23, the secretary of the Civil Chamber, Paulo Messina, personally asked the officer of the executive to be exonerated from office, The mayor asked Messina to reconsider the decision, Messina was in charge for five months and has already made cost adjustments, cancel emergency contracts and approve important projects for the future. collecting, like the Mais Valia, the reform of the social security and the recovery of the debtors of the city. (19659002) The controversy between the two began in May, when Benjamin, in a social network, accused Messina to "methodically undermine the conditions of governance SME "(Municipal Secretariat of Education). "

The" minar "mentioned by Benjamin concerned the delay of resources for the recovery and construction of schools by the secretary of the Civil House, according to the head of Education, who would also have been irritated by Any questions from the now explicitly unhappy to emergency contracts without bidding. "Messina refuted the charges at the time." Benjamin, in his Facebook profile, commented on the case, without answering. to Messina's note and without giving interviews to the press.Not to mention names, he wrote "a coalition of politicians who, once again, is trying to overthrow me." The full statement reads as follows : "Until a recent ceremony, 222 students from our public schools and their teachers were receiving medals for their performance at the Brazilian Mathematical Olympiad, hosted by the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, an in Brazilian institution of great international impact. One more reason to be proud of our network. Upon my return to the SME, I receive news of a new crisis, which I did not provoke and which I did not expect. I am completely focused on my job. The strains come out of the invention. During these hours, the so-called "fountains of the town hall", always anonymous, work at full speed. This is not my style. Just what I have to say, for the moment. I reaffirm to the network that my word will be kept: I will not ask for resignation. The articulation of politicians who, once again, tries to overthrow me, will have to shoulder the burden of their action, in plain language. "

The two CPIs of the City Council were solicited by counselors Renato Cinco (PSOL) and Rogério Rocal (PTB) .The first concerns intimidation, and the second, to contracts without call for tenders. , under the justification of emergency situations.