Overview

• The decree signed in August adds to the Presidential Personal Office the role of supporting the president’s spouse in activities of public interest.
• Opposition deputies Sóstenes Cavalcante and Luciano Zucco filed projects in Congress seeking to suspend or annul the measure.
• Gleisi Hoffmann says the rule is legal and transparent and asserts it created no new positions or costs.
• The government cites an April AGU opinion that set disclosure and accounting rules for presidential spouses’ agendas and travel, with security and privacy exceptions.
• The GPPR continues to manage the president’s agenda and communications and is led by Marco Aurélio Santana Ribeiro, as the dispute now awaits congressional handling of the PDLs.