Brazil House Speaker Says Ties With Economy Minister Are Cut
- Maia says Guedes has barred economic team from talking to him
- Revival of frictions comes ahead of tax, public sector reforms
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Brazil’s influential lower house Speaker Rodrigo Maia said he’s no longer on speaking terms with the nation’s economy chief just as the government resumes its push for austerity reforms in congress.
“I haven’t been talking with Minister Paulo Guedes; he has barred his economic team from talking to me,” Maia told Globonews TV in an interview late on Thursday. The speaker, who was instrumental in the approval of a crucial pension overhaul last year, said he had invited senior members of the economic team for a work lunch on Wednesday but Guedes prevented them from attending.