LatinNews Daily - 20 May 2010

Lula to veto 'political' pension rise

Brazil 20 May 2010 Modified: 20 May 2010 162 views

Development: On 19 May the federal senate, with 78 of the 81 senators present, took just five minutes to ratify a controversial recent lower house provisional measure to award a 7.7% annual increase in pension payments for 8.4m beneficiaries.

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