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Weekly Report - 22 March 2012 (WR-12-12)
BRAZIL: Congress goes on the lash
The federal chamber of deputies threw another curve ball this week, by voting on 19 March to allow individual states to decide whether to permit the sale of alcohol inside football stadiums during the 2013-2014 Federations Cup and World Cup, as per a contractual demand of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), which includes a major US beer label among its official sponsors. The restive lower house only voted in favour of the General Law of the Cup, which establishes the legal framework for the 2013-2014 tournaments, after the executive agreed to submit to the house its original text, allowing individual states to decide on the alcohol issue themselves. This was partly a concession to the Evangelical bench, led by the Partido da República (PR), which is threatening to break with the coalition.
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