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Weekly Report - 08 December 2011 (WR-11-49)
BRAZIL: Adieu, Lupi
Brazil’s corruption-hit labour minister Carlos Lupi of the left-wing Partido Democrático Trabalhista (PDT) finally tendered his resignation on 4 December, exactly four weeks after the press published a string of graft and ethics allegations against him. Lupi’s bullish intransigence (at one stage he said it would “take a bullet, and a big one at that” to remove him) made his exit very colourful. However there is more trouble brewing for President Dilma Rousseff in the form of an ethics scandal centred on her close ministerial colleague and lifelong friend, Fernando Pimentel.
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