Brazil Politics: Lula Set to Negotiate Aid Bill With Congress

President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva agrees to back the re-election bid of House Speaker Arthur Lira in return for support for a constitutional amendment valid for at least two years to fund the Bolsa Familia social program outside the spending cap rule, Reginaldo Lopes, the Workers’ Party leader in the Lower House, told a group of investors Thursday in Sao Paulo, according to three people familiar with the matter.

The new government also mulls reinstating taxes on fuel and industrial products that were slashed during Jair Bolsonaro’s administration, the people said, requesting not to be named as ...