The Unified National Contest (CNU) 2025 is expected to record a drop in abstention compared to the last edition of the event, said on Sunday (5) the Minister of Management and Innovation in Public Services, Esther Dweck. According to her, the lowest number of registrations and vacancies this year made a more specialized audience to compete for jobs.
“Despite having less registration [neste ano]there are more than 761 thousand subscribers, we have an expectation that proportional attendance will be higher. Almost 600,000 people of these 761,000 accessed their confirmation card, so they looked at their venue, “he said.
“Our expectation is that the number [de comparecimento] Be close to that. In fact, there are 565 thousand, if I’m not mistaken, who accessed the card and must attend, ”said the minister.
Just before 12:30 pm, the minister visited a university center at Asa Norte, in Brasilia, where 7,068 people are registered to take the test. For the minister, the drop in the number of registration is due to the reduction of the number of careers available and the end of the novelty of the unified contest format.
“The first year was a big news. There was no contest of this dimension for over ten years in Brazil,” said Dweck.
“We saw that there is a very large repressed demand, so that big registration. There were just over 2 million people registered and 1 million people who attended the day of the race. It was the biggest contest in history, but there were 6,640 vacancies. So it was a very large amount of vacancies and positions that had been without contest for many years.”
Statistics
In the first edition of CNU last year, there were 2.1 million registrations, with 970,037 compliances, resulting in abstention of 54.12%. According to the Ministry of Management and Innovation in public services, the percentage was within the average of other competitions.
In 2025, the CNU registered 761,528 registrations for 3,652 vacancies in 32 federal agencies. If percentages of access to the test card are confirmed, abstention should be around 25%.
Security
The minister sought to reassure the candidates regarding the security of the contest. Dweck stressed that the operation of the Federal Police that Last week, she dismantled a fraud scheme In the first edition of CNU and state competitions was the result of the work of the Ministry and other federal agencies.
“The operation that happened this week is the result of our security operation in the first contest. It was the exchange of information we did with the Federal Police, the very process that the Federal Police worked in this contest to be able to devastate gangs, showing that if someone tries something, will be punished.
According to Dweck, of the six candidates investigated by the Federal Police for suspected fraud at CNU, three were immediately eliminated from the second edition of the event. However, the court requested more information to delete three other candidates. “We can’t take anyone without absolute evidence,” he said.
The minister reiterated that the government will not allow fraudsters to steal vacancies from the candidates. “Our commitment is who is honestly testing, correct and passing can enter. [O governo] It won’t let anyone who was frauddated into these people, ”he said.
Next editions
The minister reiterated that there will be no new edition of Enem of the contests in 2026. This is because the budget proposal for next year sent to Congress does not predict a new selection. Only authorizations for a few public agencies and resources to summon the surpluses of candidates who took the test of 2024 and 2025, if there are vacancies in the Federal Executive Power.
