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Good morning! The government is due to present its 2026 budgetary guidelines proposal today — and is expected to seek a 7.2% bump to the minimum wage ahead of next year’s election. 

Push for Jan. 8 amnesty exposes cracks in Lula’s coalition

The far-right Liberal Party (PL) on Monday filed a motion for the House to fast-track a bill that would grant amnesty to those involved in the Jan. 8, 2023 raids of government buildings in Brasília (but also to former President Jair Bolsonaro and others accused of attempting a coup in 2022). 

Driving the news. The PL gathered 264 valid signatures, seven more than required, to make the request eligible for a floor vote — and 146 of them came from politicians who are formally part of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s ruling coalition.

👉 Why it matters. Support for the amnesty bill from within the government’s own coalition underscores two of the Lula administration’s deepest vulnerabilities: its tenuous grip on allied parties that control cabinet posts, and its tendency to govern in reaction to crises rather than in anticipation of them.

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