The government postponed the decree ending the 6x1 work schedule, Justice Edson Fachin closed the fake news investigation yesterday, and Kassab said PSD support for the government depends on fiscal adjustment

BRAZIL POLITICS - Report 10 Nov 2026 by Murillo de Aragão and Cristiano Noronha

The government has postponed until next week the decree regulating the end of the six-days-on, one-day-off (6x1) work schedule. The text was expected to be issued yesterday (Nov. 9), but President Lula, who traveled to Turkey for the UN Climate Change Conference (COP31), wants to sign it at a ceremony after he returns, on November 16. Yesterday, Supreme Court Chief Justice Edson Fachin closed the fake news investigation, which had been opened in 2019. The decision followed a request from Prosecutor General Paulo Gonet, who argued that the purpose of the investigation “has been exhausted.” On the fiscal front, PSD President Gilberto Kassab has conditioned the party’s support for the government in Congress on fiscal adjustment. The PSD will have 43 members in the House. Kassab supports administrative reform and a review of subsidies and has called the current system of congressional earmarks “unacceptable.”

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