Temer Backs Off and Shrinks Pension Reform in Brazil
The debate on the pension reform in Brazil presents today a new face, after in an unsuspected turn of his number one driving force, president Michel Temer, decided to limit the reform to federal employees.
Shielded by the need of obeying the autonomy of the states and to strengthen the federation principle, Temer announced last night
that the Constitutional Amendment proposed (PEC 287) which he sent last December to Congress and caused enormous discontent will be limited only to the federal employees.
It would be, ‘a relative invasion of competence’, he said when commenting he had information that several entities of the federation already had reformed their pension system.
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