Following her confirmation as Minister for Culture last Thursday 22nd, Margareth Menezes began acting to guarantee next year’s portfolio budget. with household talks Marching through the National Congress, Margareth celebrated the guarantee of what she described as a “historic household resource”.
“By joining forces between the cultural sector, the interim government and the National Congress, we are guaranteeing a historic budgetary source that will allow us to rebuild the Ministry of Culture and also put the Paulo Gustavo and Aldir Blanc 2 laws into practice and get moving again to come to this sector that employs more than 5 million workers, a great success for culture at the end of the year,” announced the manager.
Also on Thursday 22nd, as a result of the vote between Margareth and the drafter of the law, Senator Paulo Rocha (PT), the National Congress approved 3.8 billion reals for the Paulo Gustavo law for the cultural sector. The resources are expected to be sufficient 5 million workers of culture across the country.
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“By 2023, culture and art will have guaranteed budget and will have the redesign of MinC, with an appropriate structure to give the sector a boost again, with all its diversity. It is truly the beginning of a new cycle for the culture of this country! Victory for culture, victory for Brazil!” the minister celebrated.
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How are MinC resources shared?
According to the minister, Presidentelect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) describes the cultural sector as an “economic powerhouse” and will also include culture in his government Opportunity to generate jobs and income🇧🇷
Around R$3.8 billion will be made available from the financial surplus of the National Culture Fund (FNC) and the Audiovisual Sectorial Fund (FSA) to finance cultural projects. The idea is that the budget is split between the States, federal districts and municipalities🇧🇷
Cinema will be the language with the largest budget, with 2.8 billion reals, and the rest, 1.06 billion reals, will go to other areas. The Aldir Blanc 2 Act, on the other hand, provides for an additional BRL 3 billion for cultural investments.
Internet users indicate actions
Shortly after Margareth Menezes made the announcement on social media, followers pointed to actions to be taken with him Recreation of the Ministry of Culture🇧🇷
“For an adequate structure, it is imperative to strengthen the MinC in terms of personnel and to lead it in a participatory manner public tenders for recomposition, career plan with academic qualification incentive and salary adjustment, which have been frozen since January 2017,” stressed the user of the social network Lia Jordão.
“Margareth, Brazil has too much potential for that light force🇧🇷 Funk manages to penetrate the whole world. You need to invest like South Korea. It would be too nice. I hope there’s someone close to you with this idea!” suggested Karen Oliveira.
Another netizen, identified as Igor, drew attention to the resumption of the Teatro Para Todos program. “See if you enjoy watching a program once called “Theater for Everyone”🇧🇷 This program made it possible for many people who have not even been to a theater to do so. I don’t know if it was national, but it was in the Southeast. It is important to grant access to cinemas, theaters and museums,” he wrote.
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