The government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva commissioned the actress and presenter Cissa Guimarães to host the Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (EBC) program Sem Censura. For 12 months of work she receives R$840,000. The settings display will take place as early as 2023but only now has the contract been consolidated.
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The contract was awarded without competition, without the need for a tender process, the Metrópoles portal reported. In the 2022 election, Cissa Guimarães was one of the artists who recorded a jingle for Lula's campaign.
Former Globo actress Cissa Guimarães is hired as TV Brasil presenter
In total, the actress will present 260 episodes, from February 26, the premiere date, to February 22, 2025. For the production of Sem Censura, the government will spend R$ 5 million, an amount that includes Cissa's salary and a month of preproduction contains .
The contract is with Fábrica Entratenimento e Participações, which states that the presentation service is provided “exclusively by the professional, artist and moderator Cissa Guimarães involved in the contractual relationship”.
EBC's expenses for Sem Censura are as follows:
- R$840,000: salary of Cissa Guimarães;
- R$956,000: content services;
- R$679,000: creative services;
- Presentation services worth R$744,000;
- R$720,000: artistic management services; It is
- R$1 million: Project fees and taxes.
Cissa Guimarães was fired from Globo in 2021 after working at the broadcaster for 46 years. In a video published on the social networks TV Brasil, EBC and Cissa, the presenter celebrated the new job.
“I'm so happy, so excited, I won't tell you anything else. “You have to watch the show,” he said in a clip of the video.
According to EBC, there was no illegality in the hiring of Cissa Guimarães
EBC told Metrópoles that the hiring of Cissa Guimarães took into account the actress's experience and represents “a solid strategic move, aligned with the objectives of the audience and the relevance of the program, as well as with the fulfillment of EBC's institutional mission, with emphasis on relevance and duty. “Providing citizens with a highquality program”.
The stateowned company explained that the nonrequirement of a tender for the recruitment of the moderator and the Fábrica Entratenimento e Participações is provided for in the Law on State Enterprises and in the internal regulations of the EBC for tenders and contracts and therefore there is no illegality without a bid.
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“The specific legal framework refers to services related to the production of audiovisual works, in particular to the provision of artistic management services, content services and creative services, inseparable from the attraction's presentation services, for a period of 13 months, with the first month dedicated .” The remaining 12 months included the broadcast of live and recorded programs. During this period, a total of 260 new episodes of the program “Sem Censura”, hosted by Cissa Guimarães, were created,” said EBC.