Federal civil servants are an influential group in Brazil.
But President Jair Bolsonaro has managed to alienate this sector of around 1 million workers, with many of them threatening to hold a general strike at the end of January. If government employees stop working, that could lead to a shutdown — bad news for any president at any moment, but catastrophic during an election year.
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