- MARKET: Lula criticizes 'fiscal stability' and defends expanding spending and the market reacts with a 4% drop in the Stock Exchange. In his speech at the transition office, the president-elect defended spending on social programs and criticized defenders of “such fiscal stability”. 'Why do people always say that we need to cut spending, we need to create a surplus, we need to set a spending cap?', questionor the president-elect. (Stay) (I.e.
- EXPENSES: Fiscal responsibility is not incompatible with social responsibility, says Alckmin. After a negative reaction from the financial market to Lula's speeches, the vice-president-elect came to Lula's defense. “If anyone had fiscal responsibility, it was Lula. This is not incompatible with the social issue. What needs to happen is for the economy to grow. And it is important to have public and private investment, recover planning in Brazil and [have] good projects”, said Alckmin. (Power 360)
- CUP: Report points to signs of modern slavery in the construction of World Cup stadiums in Qatar. A survey by Equidem – a London group that denounces human rights violations – shows that foreign workers responsible for building World Cup stadiums worked under harsh conditions and were subjected to discrimination, wage theft and other abuses. (G1)
- FAREWELL: Roberto Guilherme, Sergeant Pincel from 'Os Trapalhões', dies aged 84. The actor had cancer and was admitted to the São Vicente clinic, in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro. The death was announced by the family on Instagram. (UOL)
- INFLATION: IPCA rose 0,59%; see the biggest inflation villains in the month of October. The group that weighed the most on the general inflation index was food and beverages, with an increase of 0,72%. (Land)
- SCAM: Vaivém da Defesa reports false narrative of electoral fraud in Bolsonarist groups. Focused on the Bolsonarist militancy that refuses to accept the results of the polls even after the report finds no fraud in the elections, the Defense releases a statement to say that it has not excluded this possibility. (Folha de S.Paulo) (I.e.
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