Brazil’s Bolsonaro does not rule out retaining central bank chief Goldfajn


  • World
  • Sunday, 21 Oct 2018

Presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro is pictured during a news conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil October 11, 2018. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's presidential front-runner Jair Bolsonaro said on Saturday he does not rule out keeping acclaimed central bank chief Ilan Goldfajn in the job, on a day that thousands took to the streets of major cities to protest against the far-right candidate.

"I am not sure if he will be kept but what is working should be kept," Bolsonaro told journalists in Rio when asked about Goldfajn's future.

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