Weekly Report - 06 December 2012 (WR-12-48)

Two new political fronts have opened up between the opposition Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB) and the federal executive led by President Dilma Rousseff; one over the government’s intervention to bring down the country’s high energy costs; and another over the highly contested new legislation for oil royalties. Both are being steered by allies of the leading opposition senator Aécio Neves, who after a lacklustre couple of years as a novice federal senator, finally seems to have developed an appetite for political battle.

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