Pressure Grows on Brazil's Temer to Veto Judges Salary Increases

A petition asking Brazil’s president to veto salary hikes for the nation’s Supreme Court judges has attracted over a million signatures less than 24 hours after its launch.

On Wednesday night the Senate approved a 16 percent pay rise for the country’s top judges, only hours after president-elect Jair Bolsonaro said that now was not the time for an increase. With many other civil servants’ pay-checks linked to Supreme Court salaries, the total annual cost of the hike will be at least R$5.3 billion ($1.4bn), according to the website Congresso em Foco.