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Bolsonaro stages a classic of Brazilian politics

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The appointment of senator Ciro Nogueira (Progressive Party, PP of Piauí) as Jair Bolsonaro’s Chief of Staff revisits a classic of Brazilian politics: every government in difficulties in Congress, particularly when it is harassed by a parliamentary investigation, makes a ministerial reengineering.Mr. Bolsonaro has no shortage of difficulties in the Senate. They became worse this year. Until Wednesday morning, five of his cabinet ministers were federal deputies, and no one was a senator. It is in the Senate that runs the Investigative Parliamentary Committee (CPI) on Covid-19, aimed at probing into the way the federal government has handled the pandemic. Senators who support the government are minority in the CPI, which is now examining alleged corruption schemes in the Ministry of Health that extend as far as (?) the doors of the presidential office inside (?). There is a request sitting in the Federal Supreme Court (STF) for the president to be investigated for corruption.There is also the stumbling nomination of André Mendonça for a vacancy in the Supreme Court. Senators, in charge of approving the name, do not seem to be enthusiastic about him.Mr. Bolsonaro also has a demanding ally in the command of the Chamber, the speaker Arthur Lira (Progressive Party, PP of Alagoas), who demands a lot, but in exchange shields the president in the House. The opposition has no chance.In the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco (Democrats, DEM of Minas Gerais), who is proving to be...

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