Since Inauguration, The Bolsonaro Administration Has Made One Retraction Every Day

[Judi Lynn]

In his first nine days in office, the president backpedaled on significant policy decisions nine times

Jan.11.2019 3:46PM

Marina Dias

BRASÍLIA
During his first nine days as president, Jair Bolsonaro publicly backpedaled on least nine major decisions publicly announced by either him or members of his cabinet.

The average of one backpedal a day shows the senior officers' lack of planning and the president's inattentiveness and lack of assertiveness.

On his first day as president, January 1st, Bolsonaro signed the decree raising the monthly minimum wage from R$ 954 to R$ 998 (US$ 257 to US$ 269). However, the raise was announced hours after Chief of Staff Onyx Lorenzoni assured that the new president would only start working the following day.

Last week, Lorenzoni had to publicly retract a previous statement, saying that he "made an error" when he announced that the tax for bank operations would be raised and the income tax rate would be reduced from 27.5% to 25%.

Lorenzoni also made great fanfare of dismissing 320 people from his team that was employed during the Lula and Rousseff administration.

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