With the credibility of Lula in low, the best that economist Marcio Pochmann has to do is to leave the presidency of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. It is an old PT framework and, in less than two years, poisoned its management with the proposal of. In theory, the news would open a window for the Institute to firm partnerships with private companies.
When private interests mix with the gym, horrible things can happen. Harvard and London School of Economics teachers got into the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. In Brazil, an arm of the Getulio Vargas Foundation.
Servers and directors of Pochmann’s project baptized him of “IBGE parallel”. Irony of Life: In 2007, when the Doctor presided over the applied economic research institute was accused of fulfilling the task of “statisting” the Ipea. (In 2010, the institute opened an office in Caracas de Hugo Chavez.) Now they accuse him of wanting to privatize IBGE.
The IBGE + Foundation Statute has identical passages to the ill -fated health of Rio. So far it may have been lazy, but predict that certain matters would require the approval of two thirds of a five -member curator was too much for a text of a text of IBGE. Two thirds of five gives 3.333.
In recent weeks, two institute’s directors, and 134 servers (125 of which in leadership positions) signed a letter condemning IBGE + and Pochmann. Last week, the Executive Director of the IBGE +Foundation was resigned. It is because of the style that Pochmann should ask to leave.
He took over in July 2023, and his project of an IBGE + was criticized in September 2024. In November, Pochmann asked the prosecutor to investigate alleged irregularities and conflict of interest to the agency’s employees. They would be private consulting services provided to a partner institution of the Institute. God only knows the mazes of consultancies, but calling the prosecutor to investigate two months after the criticism smells of the retaliation.
Pochmann is a flower of the garden of Unicamp and a root petista. He twice disputed the city of Campinas and tried to elect deputy. When his management in Ipea generated rains and thunderstorms, he defended himself:
“I have over two decades of academic activity. I’m polemist, I like the controversy.” “I’m not there [no Ipea] To organize consensus, but to organize the dissent. “
Since the crisis in IBGE began, the presidency of the institute speaks through notes, always Altaneiras. In one of them, he accused critics of moving “a misinformation campaign.” Disinformation was the doctor who encouraged in October 2020 in saying that the Central Bank Pix was.
Pochmann seems to have lost taste for the controversy, and if at some point he wanted to organize the dissense, he only managed to expand him. The IBGE Servers Union marked this morning a demonstration in front of the Institute’s headquarters.
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