Paulo Guedes’s complex formula and other weekly topics

BRAZIL POLITICS - Report 14 Sep 2020 by Murillo de Aragão and Cristiano Noronha

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This is the final week for political parties to define candidates and alliances ahead of the November municipal elections. In congress, a session that had been scheduled to analyze presidential vetoes, including payroll tax exemptions and sanitation, was cancelled. In the economy, we highlight the Central Bank’s decision on the benchmark interest rate.

This week’s Talking Points:

* Evaluation of political risk.

* Paulo Guedes’s complex formula.

* Congressional elections update.

* Tax Reform progress likely to be complicated.

* Food prices challenge the government.

* The PT tries to build an agenda.