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turbinetree

(24,703 posts) Mon Jul 8, 2019, 06:37 AM Jul 2019

Brazilian House speaker predicts pension reform vote on Tuesday

Source: Reuters

Business News
July 6, 2019 / 5:49 PM / Updated 2 hours ago
Maria Carolina Marcello
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian House speaker Rodrigo Maia said on Saturday he expects the lower Congressional House to begin voting on the pension reform bill on Tuesday.

After a meeting with Congressional leaders on Saturday in Brasilia, Maia said he will begin discussing the bill with party leaders on Monday and expects voting to begin late on Tuesday.

The pension reform, which will need to amend Brazil´s constitution, needs at least 308 votes in two voting rounds, equivalent to three fifths of representatives in the lower House.

Economy Minister Paulo Guedes has estimated that the plan to overhaul Brazil’s social security system could save as much as 3 trillion reais over 20 years.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-economy-pension-reform/brazilian-house-speaker-predicts-pension-reform-vote-on-tuesday-idUSKCN1U10NZ?il=0

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So this "guy" thinks social security needs to be reformed to balance the books..................sounds like a republican....................

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all the Brazilian fascist oligarchs have been howling to reverse progress made by Lula da Silva, Judi Lynn Jul 2019 #1

Judi Lynn

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1. all the Brazilian fascist oligarchs have been howling to reverse progress made by Lula da Silva,

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Mon Jul 8, 2019, 11:56 AM

Jul 2019

and his successor, Rousseff, who made a huge impact on addressing the plight of the vast Brazilian majority of deeply poor people, through arranging government aid to bring food, medicine, education, etc.

This is done specifically in the interests of the racist oligarchy, and intended to cut the desperately poor people loose. That's what they have wanted all this time the two progressives were in office.

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