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Bolsonaro signs emergency salary into law (with vetoes)

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Senator Fernando Bezerra Coelho, the government’s whip in the upper house, has just told his colleagues that President Jair Bolsonaro has signed the bill granting a BRL 600 emergency salary to informal workers. The president, however, has placed three vetoes — which remain unknown and should be made public in Thursday’s edition of the Federal Register.

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