The Minister of Transport, Renan Filho, criticized the toxicological examination required for candidates in categories A (motorcycle) and B (car) to obtain the National Driving License (CNH). According to the minister, this Wednesday (10/12), the requirement “does not make sense”.
“I am a member of Congress, I am a senator of the Republic, but Congress cannot vote on what the people do not want because Congress represents the Brazilian people. It is a strange thing,” the minister said.
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Previously, Renan Filho had declared that 7,500 people had followed the theoretical course offered by the federal government to obtain a driving license.
The exam became mandatory this Tuesday (12/9), for anyone obtaining their license for the first time. Until now, a negative test was only required for categories C, D and E, that is to say drivers of buses, minibuses, vans and school transport vehicles. Now the same exam rules apply to all CNH categories.
According to data from the National Road Traffic Secretariat (Senatran), the toxicological examination required to obtain a driving license is an examination with a wide detection window, aimed at verifying the consumption, active or not, of psychoactive substances up to 90 days before the procedure.
Still according to Renan, he will evaluate “what can be done”, because his intention is “to seek a condition to try to escape this toxicology for portfolios A and B, while knowing that with the overturning of the presidential veto, this will become a law”.
“We must check if the law is constitutional, how it will be regulated, how much it will cost (…) It is something that makes no sense, it is an additional cost, and it should not exist, that is how I think. I do not renounce my opinion and I will defend the interest of the citizen. I think I will find a way out,” declared the minister.
He stressed that this “makes the process more expensive, bureaucratizes and inconveniences Brazilian citizens.”
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