Lawmakers agreed to elect a new president next week but struggled Tuesday to decide on the makeup of a new government to lift the bankrupt country out of economic and political collapse.

Abe was fatally shot Friday in Nara in western Japan while campaigning for Sunday’s parliamentary elections.

Environmental groups said that the proposed critical habitat for North Pacific right whales would require special management considerations and protections like those that are already enforced to protect North Atlantic right whales.

The president of Brazil’s Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco, said the killing was ‘a pure expression of this moment of a lot of political hatred, a lot of intolerance.’