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Bolsonaro Backs Down on Granting Churches Discount on Peak-time Energy Use

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - President Jair Bolsonaro said on Wednesday, January 15th, that he has suspended any negotiations to grant subsidies to religious temples' energy bills.

The decision comes after the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo disclosed last week that the government was preparing a decree to adopt the measure, at the request of the president himself, but that there was resistance from the economic team.

"I spoke with Silas Câmara (president of the evangelical . . .

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