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Weekly Report - 02 July 2020 (WR-20-26)

BRAZIL: Another faux pas in the education ministry

When Carlos Decotelli tendered his resignation as Brazil’s education minister on 30 June, he had been in the post a mere five days and was yet to be officially sworn in. Decotelli’s briefest of tenures, brought to an abrupt end amid allegations that he fabricated his academic credentials, is a new record even for President Jair Bolsonaro’s government, which notably lost a health minister after less than a month in the post back in May [WR-20-20]. The episode further unsettles the Bolsonaro administration at a time of fragility.

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