The Brazilian President withdrew an executive order that would have increased the number of officials able to effectively keep government documents, data secret
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro late on Tuesday withdrew an executive order signed in January that would have increased the number of officials able to effectively keep government documents and data secret.
In January, Vice-President Hamilton Mourao, acting for Bolsonaro while the president underwent surgery, signed the measure that altered Brazil’s freedom of information rules by allowing a wider range of officials to designate information as secret or ultra-secret. The move was widely denounced by transparency advocates and journalists at the time.
In February, however, Brazil’s lower house voted to suspend the measure, in what amounted to the first legislative defeat for the right-wing Bolsonaro, who took power on Jan. 1.While the suspension must still be confirmed by the senate, Bolsonaro decided to cancel the executive order, according to the Wednesday edition of the government’s official bulletin.
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