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...Finance minister Fernando Haddad has said the intention is to end exemptions, loopholes and avoidance, rather than increase the country’s already elevated overall tax burden....
...“Lira is today effectively a kind of prime minister,” said Fernando Schüler, a political analyst at Insper, a university in São Paulo....
...They are less ill-disposed towards Bolsonaro,” says Graziella Testa, a political scientist at the Getulio Vargas Foundation....
...But for that to happen, he needs to move on,” said Eduardo Mello, a professor of politics at the Getulio Vargas Foundation....
...“They are both weak candidates, who have [congressional] minorities, and are not loved by the electorate,” Vargas Cullell said....
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...And not only by the OECD,” said Raquel Pimenta, a law professor at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo. “And now there is a monitoring group just for Brazil?...
...General Fernando Azevedo e Silva, the defence minister fired by Bolsonaro three weeks later, pointedly referred in his departure letter to the fact that he had “preserved the armed forces as institutions...
...Fernando Bizzarro, a political scientist at the David Rockefeller Centre for Latin American Studies, said: “The party has ceased to be bigger than its leadership. It has become Lula's party.”...
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...Yet for Paula Vedoveli, a historian at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas, royal rule will remain a thing of the past in Brazil....
...Fernando Haddad, who ran against Mr Bolsonaro in last year’s election, said: “Bolsonaro has always been an unbalanced person. He never wanted to appear as a sensible person....
...“We are going back to business as usual,” said Eduardo Mello, a professor of politics at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation....
...Fernando Haddad, who ran in lieu of Lula in the presidential race and for the most part operated in the former leader’s shadow, was roundly defeated by Mr Bolsonaro....
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...On the campaign trail in Rio de Janeiro this week Fernando Haddad, the presidential candidate of Brazil’s leftwing Workers’ Party, tried to pump up supporters ahead of the second round election this Sunday...
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...“It means two things: one positive and one negative for those who care about corruption,” said Matías Spektor, a professor of politics at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo....
...“Brazil’s established parties are not loved but have shown how resilient they are,” said Oliver Stuenkel at the Getulio Vargas Foundation....
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