Nikolas Ferreira: The Lula government made transparency a banner issue.
Nikolas Ferreira: It promised to revoke secrecy orders.
While that discourse was repeated, the AGU, under Messias's command, stopped publishing for eight months how much each member of the institution received in fees.
Nikolas Ferreira: A piece of information that any citizen could consult every month on the transparency portal simply disappeared.
Nikolas Ferreira: During that period, the payments totaled 2.5 billion.