Minister dismisses advisor who signed changes to school textbook tender.

247 - Minister Ricardo Vélez Rodríguez dismissed Rogério Fernando Lot this Friday (11), who was responsible for signing a change in the tender that would allow the acquisition of works with printing errors and advertising. information This information comes from the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper. According to Friday's edition of the Official Gazette of the Union, Lot was dismissed from a commissioned position as chief of staff at the FNDE (National Fund for the Development of Education). 

According to this version, the books distributed to millions of teenagers aged 11 to 15 in the country (6th to 9th grade) could not make references to violence against women, the promotion of Quilombola culture and rural communities. The illustrations also could not depict "the ethnic diversity of the Brazilian population, the social and cultural plurality of the country".

The appointee was not a Bolsonaro administration nominee. Vélez chose Carlos Alberto Decotelli to head the FNDE, but he is still awaiting his official appointment. Lot, on the other hand, was appointed chief of staff of the agency in January 2017, during the government of Michel Temer (MDB), by the then Minister of Education, Mendonça Filho. Also during the Temer administration, he served as acting president of the agency.

The publication of a notice on the 2nd of this month, which could have allowed the approval of substandard school textbooks, generated controversy and a reversal by the Bolsonaro government, which revoked the act. Vélez blamed the previous administration for the change, and former minister Rossieli Soares also denied any responsibility for the matter.