Civil servants staged significant strikes opposing this and also other reforms. Even though public financial debt and inflation remained an issue in 2004, Brazil's economic system showed signs of growth and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 shown that almost all of Brazilians supported Lula's challenging economic reform endeavours. https://brandwoot.com/userinfo.php?action=view&mod=space&userinfo=imogen-grover-451694