Civil servants staged huge strikes opposing this and also other reforms. Even though public financial debt and inflation remained an issue in 2004, Brazil's overall economy showed signs of progress and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 shown that the majority of Brazilians supported Lula's tricky financial reform endeavours. https://magetique.com/userinfo.php?mod=space&do=profile&user=ivan_spyer.451694