an official transparency portal that is maintained by the Secretariat of the State Comptroller General (Secretaria da Controladoria-Geral do Estado - SCGE). According to the portal, the state is a pioneer and national reference in this regard. The portal has information on state expenditures and budget, the annual rendering of accounts, fiscal reports, and state assets. The Comptroller General of the Union (Controladoria-Geral da União - CGU), since 2015, evaluates states and municipalities in a transparency ranking known as the Transparent Brazil Scale (Escala Brasil Transparente - EBT). In the first edition of the ranking, the state ranked eleventh (8.61), with the same score as Tocantins. In the second, it had its worst performance in this ranking, with the twentieth position (6.67), in a drop of almost two points in relation to the previous edition. In the following edition it had its best performance, with the first place (10), but in this edition, twelve states were tied in this position. In the first release of the result of the 2018 edition of EBT, which occurred on December 12, 2018, Pernambuco had ranked first on the scale (with a score of 9.4) and this fact was publicized by the Pernambuco press and by the governor, in a post on a social network. However, there were requests for grade revision by some states and municipalities analyzed by the ranking that year and part of them were accepted by CGU, which released the final result on February 28, 2019. After the revision, the state of Pernambuco was ranked fourth, the same as Santa Catarina, and the state that reached the first place was Mato Grosso do Sul, taking the score 9.64. Pernambuco was not one of the states that requested revision of its score, so it was not changed. The EBT is also used to assess transparency in municipalities. In relation to Pernambuco's municipalities, Recife has always taken the top Pernambuco position in the overall ranking and when assessing only the state's municipalities. However, in the second and third editions the municipalities of São Vicente Férrer and Serra Talhada also took the top score. In the 2018 edition, Recife had ranked second among Brazilian capitals in the first disclosure, behind only Vitória, but it moved up to the highest score after its score was raised from 9.76 to 9.9. The Court of Accounts also does its own transparency ranking among Pernambuco municipalities, the