Overview

• The regional appeals court suspended a first-instance injunction that had halted the edital after a popular action filed by Recife councilor Tadeu Calheiros.
• UFPE is authorized to proceed with selecting 80 students for a special Medicine cohort at the Caruaru campus reserved for Pronera beneficiaries without reducing SISU places.
• Judge Fernando Braga Damasceno found legal plausibility and affirmed university autonomy in establishing the program.
• The court noted external financing of R$18,648,000 by INCRA rather than UFPE’s regular budget.
• More than 1,200 people applied, the court endorsed a curriculum-and-essay assessment as an equity tool, and medical associations plus some legislators continue to oppose the initiative.