Four members of the economic team resign after a solution to the court-ordered payments PEC and Auxílio Brasil issues was announced. The president of the TSE should schedule analysis of cases calling for the revocation of the Bolsonaro-Mourão ticket

BRAZIL POLITICS - Report 22 Oct 2021 by Murillo de Aragão and Cristiano Noronha

The Special Secretary of the Treasury and Budget, Bruno Funchal, and his assistant, Gildenora Dantas, stepped down. The secretary of the National Treasury, Jeferson Bittencourt, and his assistant, Rafael Araujo, also left the ministry. The court-ordered payments PEC was approved by the Special Committee of the House. The proposal contains two measures that create R$ 83.6 billion of space in the 2022 Budget. After voting on Senator Calheiros’s final report on the CPI, it will be sent to the Prosecutor General's Office. The Electoral Judicial Investigation Acts against the Bolsonaro and Mourão electoral ticket were submitted by the PT and investigate whether there was an abuse of economic power and misuse of the media by the Bolsonaro campaign in 2018, through the use of mass-messaging tactics on WhatsApp.

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