CNU 2025: new list of qualified candidates for remaining vacancies released

Candidates who are on the waiting list in the second edition of the Unified National Public Contest (CNU), held in 2025, can now check the new ranking list for filling the remaining vacancies from previous calls in the competition.

The result was published by the National School of Public Administration Foundation, linked to the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services (MGI), in the Federal Official Gazette this Friday (25).

The vacancies described are for intermediate- and higher-level positions.

Distribution and vacancy criteria

Notice Enap No. 260/2026 distributes the vacancies among the bodies and entities participating in the CNU 2025, with quantities allocated to open competition and reserved quota vacancies.

The publication with each candidate's name shows the ranking order, according to the final score achieved; the availability of the other people on the waiting lists in force in the competition; the competition categories provided for (open competition, racial quotas, Indigenous, persons with disabilities) and other alternation criteria applicable to the reserved vacancies.

Order of preference and elimination

When candidates registered for the CNU 2025, they chose an order of preference among the positions in their thematic track, in case they were approved in the objective and essay tests stages.

Now, if the approved candidate is called for the first choice of position (highest preference), the competition system will eliminate them from the other options, that is, from the lower-preference positions for which they had already been approved.

This process makes it possible to open up “space” in the queue so that other candidates from the waiting list can be called to fill these lower-preference positions.

But the rule does not apply if the approved candidate has already been appointed to one of these other positions by the date of publication of the new notice.

Next steps

The notice explains that the final result for candidates approved for positions for which phases 5, 6 and the Second Stage are предусмотрed is conditional on the completion of the procedures provided for each phase or stage.

Phase 5, for higher-education positions that include this requirement, is the evaluation of qualifications. This stage is eliminatory and ranking-based.

Phase 6 comprises the validation and hetero-identification procedures. This procedure verifies in person or by documentary review board the self-declared condition of candidates competing for reserved positions. These are Black or Brown people; Indigenous and Quilombola people and people with disabilities (PcD).

The second stage of the competition does not apply to all positions. It is strictly intended for the careers that require complementary training for the exercise of public office.

The notice also informs that the approved people within the number of remaining vacancies who requested reclassification to the last position on the list for the respective position or specialty will have their results published in a specific notice.

Follow-up

The Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services (MGI) warns that all those classified must follow the summons notices of each federal agency participating in CNU 2025, which has its own procedures and deadlines.

The second edition of the Unified National Public Competition, held in the second half of 2025, initially offered 3,652 vacancies distributed across 32 federal agencies.

The public positions were grouped into nine thematic blocks. The positions in each block could be chosen according to the order of preference indicated at the time of the candidate's registration.

Of the total vacancies in the so-called Enem of Competitions, 3,144 vacancies were intended for higher-education positions and 508 for intermediate-level positions.

In this selection process, the Ministry of Management also adopted the gender equalization mechanism, with the aim of ensuring that the number of women approved for the competition's written phase was proportionate to that of male candidates.

The unprecedented measure resulted in the participation of more than 24,000 women, about 57% of those summoned, in the tests.