BRAZIL: Jair Bolsonaro faces congressional test for radical reforms. “Brazil’s president attempts pension and tax overhauls that have eluded his predecessors.”

Since he took office on January 1 he has used decree powers to relax restrictions on gun ownership and to make it easier for government officials to deny access to information, previously guaranteed by a 2012 freedom of information law.

Mr Bolsonaro’s supporters say they will quickly push ahead with reforms.

“Our whole project is a liberal project,” said Luciano Bivar, president of Mr Bolsonaro’s party, the PSL. “We will push for an open market economy, all the liberal reforms, with a lot of force.”

Among Mr Bolsonaro’s electoral promises was a plan to do away with Brazil’s separate system of labour courts and another to simplify the country’s labyrinthine municipal, state and federal tax systems into single national rates of income and value added tax.

I like the cut of his jib.