Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday summoned his environmental and indigenous affairs ministers for emergency talks after a congressional committee passed a bill gutting the ministries' environmental oversight powers.
The measure, which requires approval on the lower house floor and the Senate to pass, represents Lula's first major clash with a newly conservative Congress following significant gains by right-wing lawmakers in last year's election.
But Lula also said at the same event that Brazil needs to continue to grow its meat and grains export industries, a sign of his conundrum. Late on Wednesday, committee members in Congress approved a proposal that weakened the environment ministry, stripping it of oversight of the rural land registry and other responsibilities. The bill also removed the ministry of Indigenous peoples' power to demarcate Indigenous lands. Both measures would pave the way for greater agricultural development, critics say.
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