Brazil: Lula urges legislators to work with government on delivery of reforms.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Text of transcript of speech made by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to Congress in Brasilia on 30 April, as published by Brazilian news agency Agencia Brasil web site; subheadings inserted editorially

Most Excellent Deputy Joao Paulo Cunha, president of the Chamber of Deputies; Most Excellent Senator Jose Alencar, my dear comrade, vice-president of the republic; Most Excellent Senator Jose Sarney, president of the Federal Senate; My wife Marisa; Legislative comrades; Ministers present here; My friends who make up the Economic and Social Development Council:

Governors, mayors back the bill

Joao Paulo, just a small remark here: this bill that I am going to deliver into your hands, a few seconds from now, is not just a bill from the federal government. This bill is from Governor Paulo Souto of Bahia; it is from Rosinha Garotinho, the governor of Rio de Janeiro; it is from Jose Reinaldo Tavares, the governor of the State of Maranhao; it is from Simao Jatene, the governor of the State of Para; it is from Jarbas Vasconcelos, the governor of the State of Pernambuco; it is from Geraldo Alckmin, the governor of the State of Sao Paulo; it is from Aecio Neves da Cunha, the governor of the state of Minas Gerais; it is from Marconi Ferreira Perillo Junior, the governor of the State of Goais; it is from Blairo Borges Maggi, the …