THE GOVERNMENT STATES THAT THERE HAS BEEN NO INCREASE IN SPENDING; THE OPPOSITION ATTEMPTS TO OVERTHROW THE MEASURE
What they share: that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had signed a decree to give official status to First Lady Rosângela da Silva, known as Janja. The new structure would have gained 189 seats on the commission.
Estadão Verifica investigated and concluded that: it is misleading. The decree signed by Lula in August does not create new positions, contrary to what the post analyzed suggests. The provision authorizes the personal office of the Presidency of the Republic – a structure already existing in the Palácio do Planalto – to support the first lady “in carrying out activities of public interest”. In a note, the Presidency’s Communication Secretariat informs that with the decree “there has been no increase in spending”. The opposition has presented a project to cancel the measure (read more below).
Find out more: The amendment was signed on August 28 (here), but has had repercussions in recent days on social media with content that distorts the decree. Posts on Facebook and Instagram claim that Janja would have won a seat with 189 civil servants at her disposal, even without having been elected.
In the comments to these posts, many users criticized Janja’s alleged new “position”: “189 places? Just increase taxes a little more, low costs…”, wrote one user.
“While one turned off the pool heat to save money, the other created 189 jobs to benefit women… as my friend Toreto said (lol), ‘this is BRAZIL,’” said another, referring to former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL).
But Janja did not get a new position or new servants. As demonstrated by Estadao, the executive provision authorizes the personnel office of the Presidency of the Republic to “assist” the spouse of the President of the Republic “in the exercise of activities of public interest”.
In other words, existing employees working in the Office of the President will help Janja in public interest activities. The government says Janja’s work is voluntary and unpaid and “he may receive state support in carrying out his activities in the public interest.”
In a note, Secom reiterated that there was no increase in expenses.
“All expenses incurred by the Public Administration, relating to this activity, are public and can be consulted on the Transparency Portal”, he informed.
The opposition wants to cancel the decree
THE Estadao showed that the leader of the PL in the Chamber, Sóstenes Cavalcante (RJ), presented a project to overturn the decree, arguing that the measure “creates a structure financed with public money to ‘serve’ the first lady who has no public office, was not elected and only knows how to spend Brazilians’ money”.
In December 2024 the State showed that the government kept a team of at least 12 people at Janja’s disposal, including a team including a press officer, photographers, social media specialists and a military officer as aide-de-camp.
The news adds to the disapproval of the first lady, whose image is associated with high spending. He is also often the subject of rumors on social media. Recently, the Check has verified that the content stating that the first lady has spent R$ 117 million, or the equivalent of 83 thousand minimum wages, since January 2023, is misleading.
The video invents Janja’s attempt to buy a mansion in the United States
The video deceives by using artificial intelligence to simulate Janja flaunting purchases with public money
It does not appear that the BBC has published a text in which it defines Janja as a “materialisation of contradiction”
Source: Terra

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