Brazil’s Lula announces higher welfare payments and free weight-loss jabs ahead of election

Critics say moves from leftwing incumbent president are electorally motivated two weeks before Brazil’s elections Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has announced a 15% increase in the country’s main cash-transfer programme for poor families, as well as free…

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