Week of May 26

BRAZIL POLITICS - Report 26 May 2015 by Murillo de Aragão and Cristiano Noronha

A politically busy week in Brasília: The House tries to vote on political reform, and in the Senate, the fiscal austerity measures are the focus of the agenda. Mayors from across the country will meet in Brasília to discuss the federative pact, healthcare and education. On Friday, May 29, the IBGE releases GDP data for the first quarter.A decisive week for the fiscal austerity effortThe Senate is faced with the tough task of approving, this week, three important fiscal austerity provisional measures: MP No. 665/14, on unemployment insurance and bonuses; No. 664/14, on pensions and sick leav...

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