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Brazil's new government says it has backing for big reforms
Source: Reuters
World | Fri May 13, 2016 2:26pm EDT
Brazil's new government says it has backing for big reforms
BRASILIA | BY ANTHONY BOADLE
Brazil's center-right interim government said on Friday it has the support in Congress to push through ambitious reforms to return the economy to growth and secure a permanent mandate once leftist President Dilma Rousseff's trial is up.
Presidential Chief of Staff Eliseu Padilha said the government understood its mandate was only provisional at present and that portraits of Rousseff would be left hanging in government buildings.
Interim President Michel Temer was sworn into office on Thursday after Rousseff was suspended from office by the Senate for up to 180 days while she is tried on charges of breaking budget rules.
The margin of the vote in the Senate to suspend her, 55 to 22, showed Temer's government currently has support in Congress needed for a series of tough economic reforms, Padilha said.
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Despite having no electoral mandate, Temer promptly unveiled on Thursday an agenda of liberal reforms - including cuts to public spending and pension reforms - that would swing Brazil to the right after 13 years of leftist Workers Party rule.
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Brazil's new government says it has backing for big reforms
BRASILIA | BY ANTHONY BOADLE
Brazil's center-right interim government said on Friday it has the support in Congress to push through ambitious reforms to return the economy to growth and secure a permanent mandate once leftist President Dilma Rousseff's trial is up.
Presidential Chief of Staff Eliseu Padilha said the government understood its mandate was only provisional at present and that portraits of Rousseff would be left hanging in government buildings.
Interim President Michel Temer was sworn into office on Thursday after Rousseff was suspended from office by the Senate for up to 180 days while she is tried on charges of breaking budget rules.
The margin of the vote in the Senate to suspend her, 55 to 22, showed Temer's government currently has support in Congress needed for a series of tough economic reforms, Padilha said.
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Despite having no electoral mandate, Temer promptly unveiled on Thursday an agenda of liberal reforms - including cuts to public spending and pension reforms - that would swing Brazil to the right after 13 years of leftist Workers Party rule.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-politics-idUSKCN0Y42A8
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