The PSDB postpones its decision on Senator Tebet’s candidacy, oil workers threaten to strike if the government sends a bill to privatize Petrobras, and Minister Mendonça holds a conciliation hearing on collection of the single-phase ICMS tax

BRAZIL POLITICS - Report 02 Jun 2022 by Murillo de Aragão and Cristiano Noronha

The PSDB should decide next Thursday, June 9, whether it will support Senator Simone Tebet’s presidential candidacy. Regional alliances are holding back these negotiations. And, once again, the party is considering launching its own candidacy. Today, oil workers are mobilizing across the country to mark the beginning of negotiations for the Collective Labor Agreement (ACT), along with the National Federation of Oil Workers (FNP), and to protest the privatization of Petrobras. The Minister of the Supreme Federal Court, André Mendonça, is holding a conciliation hearing to discuss the collection of the single-phase ICMS tax on diesel with representatives of the Federal Attorney General's Office, the Ministries of Economy and Mines and Energy, the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels, and Confaz.

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