Brasília - Party leaders in Congress are meeting today to discuss the installation of two more joint parliamentary investigative commissions (comissões parlamentares mistas de inquérito) (CPMIs) [translator's note: as some of the commissions are joint and some are not, we simplify this by calling all of them "CPIs"]. A decision on the issue will be made by the president of the Congress, senator Renan Calheiros (PMDB-AL).

The two new CPIs would look into charges of graft at the Reinsurance Institute of Brazil (IRB), and the country's domestic and foreign debt.

At the moment, there are CPIs investigating the Post Office, bingos, illegal emigration, land conflict and vote buying.

Translator: Allen Bennett