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Finance Minister Guido Mantega and Agriculture Minister Reinhold Stephanes are expected to meet to discuss the renegotiation of rural sector debt. Institutional Relations Minister José Múcio meets with congressmen representing rural constituents to discuss debt renegotiation for the sector.

Central Bank President Henrique Meirelles attends the close of the XXI Liberty Forum in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. The Senate meets with 3 Provisional Measures (MPs) past their initial deadlines blocking the voting agenda.

Senate President Garibaldi Alves Filho (PMDB) meets with Senate party leaders to discuss the voting agenda and the creation of a Senate Credit Card Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry (CPI). The Senate Economic Affairs Committee holds a public hearing with Central Bank President Henrique Meirelles to discuss monetary policy. The Senate Environment Committee holds a hearing to debate the management of water resources with the participation of National Waters Agency (ANA) President José Machado and others.

The Senate CPI on Pedophilia meets to discuss the matter with Ministry of Science and Technology Internet Administration Committee Coordinator Augusto Cesar Gadelha Vieira among the invited guests. The joint Corporate Credit Card CPI meets to hear the depositions of Institutional Security of the Presidency Minister Jorge Armando Felix, and Sports Minister Orlando Silva de Jesus Junior.

House of Representatives President Arlindo Chinaglia (PT) may read the act creating the Special Committee to analyze the Tax Reform proposal. The House meets with 11 MPs and 3 bills of Law proceeding under Constitutional Urgency blocking the voting agenda. The House Special Committee on Provisional Measures meets to discuss and vote the report by Representative Leonardo Picciani (PMDB) on the matter.

The House Agriculture Committee promotes a roundtable debate on prohibitions against use restriction of genetic technologies with the participation of National Technical Committee on Biosecurity (CTNBio) Chairman Walter Colli, University of Campinas (Unicamp) researcher Marcelo Menossi, and others. Geraldo Alckmin (PSDB), pre-candidate for mayor of São Paulo, meets in Brasília with representatives from the PSDB.

DEM contests the legality of transferring labor union dues to the central unions at the Federal Supreme Court (STF). The deadline expires for political party national directories to publish in the Official Journal of the Union (DOU) their norms for choosing and substituting candidates and for forging coalitions in the October municipal elections. The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) divulges the Monthly Industrial Survey: Employment and Salary for February.

IBGE is scheduled to release the data from the March Systematic Agricultural Production Survey. The Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV) announces the Consumer Price Index - Weekly (IPC-S) for the four weeks ending with the first week in April.

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