Brazil leader fires hundreds of 'left wing' civil servants

12:00 AM, January 06, 2019 / LAST MODIFIED: 12:41 AM, January 06, 2019
Brazil leader fires hundreds of 'left wing' civil servants

Independent.co.uk

Brazil's new president has authorised the dismissal of civil servants who do not share his far-right ideology, it has been reported.

Having taken office this week, Jair Bolsonaro has launched a purge of left-wing government officials with approximately 300 people expected to be dismissed.

Officials who are seen as being supportive of the previous left-wing and centrist governments will be removed to “clean the house”, Bolsonaro's chief of staff Onyx Lorenzoni said.

“It's the only way to govern with our ideas, our concepts and to carry out what Brazil's society decided in its majority,” Lorenzoni said, according to Die Welt.

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