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Mato Grosso governance, judicial reforms and social laws

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In May 2026, the Mato Grosso administration launched regulatory reforms, including staffing quotas for judicial exams, a suspension of a temporary prison-guard hiring plan, and an audit of bus-ticket compliance. A health audit revealed critical shortages of medicines and equipment in primary-care units, prompting corrective orders. June saw the judiciary broaden its social-service role through health-council training and mobile-justice weeks. The state declared a public holiday for the 2026 World Cup and announced a R$ 2 billion security-spending increase. Environmental enforcement was heightened following Supreme Court endorsement of the CAR-Digital 2.0 system. By July and August, the focus shifted to infrastructure, judicial integrity, and social protections. The judiciary launched IntegridadeJus, a pilot integrity office in the 3ª Vara Especializada em Direito Bancário, designed to strengthen a culture of integrity through risk management and staff training. The Tribunal de Justiça approved a list of eleven female judges for a vacant desembargadora seat under gender-alternation policies. Legal and social developments continued with the 5th Labor Court fining a lawyer for submitting fabricated, AI-generated jurisprudence. In a high-profile criminal case, Carlos Alberto Gomes Bezerra was sentenced to 36 years for the 2023 femicide of his ex-partner and the homicide of her boyfriend. Additionally, the state enacted the Ana Carolina Aguiar Lima Law (State Law No. 13.516), which guarantees women the right to be accompanied by a person of their choice during medical consultations, exams, and surgical procedures, particularly when body exposure or sedation is involved. In August, the Tribunal de Justiça unanimously approved the list of eleven female judges to compete for the desembargadora seat vacated by the retirement of Justice Juvenal Pereira da Silva. Concurrently, a judge in Cuiabá upheld the 36-year sentence for Carlos Alberto Gomes Bezerra, rejecting defense appeals regarding sentence calculations.

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