BRASILIA — Brazil’s lower house speaker Rodrigo Maia said on Monday he is convinced congress will approve tax reform and that it should be done this year to avoid the debate from being influenced by the 2022 presidential election.
In an interview with TV Tropical do Rio Grande do Norte, Maia also said he will look at impeachment requests against President Jair Bolsonaro at the appropriate time, stressing that the priority right now is the fight against coronavirus.
Maia also said that Brazil must implement some form of basic income program for the country’s most vulnerable people next year once emergency […]
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