Lindbergh: The Union's 2018 education budget is "devastating".

While praising the education policies of the Lula and Dilma governments, Senator Lindbergh Farias (PT-RJ) predicted a collapse, mainly in federal universities and institutes, in 2018. The congressman highlighted that in the area of science and technology, the 2015 budget, which was R$ 5,8 billion, will be only R$ 1,3 billion next year. For higher education, which received R$ 13 billion in 2015, it will be R$ 5,4 billion in 2018; "Our universities will not be able to function next year. Do you know the investment budget line? It drops to zero! Not a single real for investment. This is all a result of this government's choices and the Constitutional Amendment on the Spending Cap."

October 11, 2017, 19:19 PMUpdated June 26, 2018, 15:28 pm

While praising the education policies of the Lula and Dilma governments, Senator Lindbergh Farias (PT-RJ) predicted a collapse, mainly in federal universities and institutes, in 2018; the congressman highlighted that in the area of science and technology, the 2015 budget, which was R$ 5,8 billion, will be only R$ 1,3 billion next year. For higher education, which received R$ 13 billion in 2015, it will be R$ 5,4 billion in 2018; "Our universities will not be able to function next year. Do you know the investment item? It drops to zero! Not a single real for investment. This is all a result of this government's choices and the Constitutional Amendment on the Spending Cap" (Photo: Leonardo Lucena)

Senate Agency - While praising the policies of the Lula and Dilma governments in the field of education, Senator Lindbergh Farias (PT-RJ) described the Union Budget for the sector in 2018 as "destructive". This Wednesday (11), in the Plenary, he predicted a collapse, mainly in federal universities and institutes.

He highlighted that in the area of science and technology, the 2015 budget, which was R$ 5,8 billion, will be only R$ 1,3 billion next year. For higher education, which received R$ 13 billion in 2015, it will be R$ 5,4 billion in 2018.

"Our universities won't be able to function next year. You know the investment budget line? It drops to zero! Not a single real for investment. This is all a result of this government's choices and the Constitutional Amendment on the Spending Cap," he lamented.

The congressman mentioned a seminar on education, organized by the PT (Workers' Party) caucus in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies and by the Perseu Abramo Foundation. Lindbergh also stated that Lula has been persecuted, not only for the good government he led, but mainly because of his strong performance in election polls.

— Lula has 35%, and he's just taking a beating, every day, in National Journal"I want to see what happens when he starts talking. Talking about what he did for Brazilian education, because he made a revolution: he quadrupled the number of technical schools, doubled the number of university campuses. So what they really have is fear. It's fear of what Lula still means to these people," he stated.