* Brazil’s labour minister, Helton Yomura, resigned on 5 July after the supreme court (STF) suspended him in relation to an investigation into alleged fraud in the registration of trade unions. The suspension of the minister, unprecedented in Brazilian politics, was requested by the federal police and authorised by Edson Fachin, one of the 11 STF magistrates. Yomura, who had only been in the post since April, belongs to the Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro (PTB). President Michel Temer replaced him in an interim capacity with the incumbent chief-of-staff, Eliseu Padilha.
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