{"id":1122,"date":"2016-03-30T17:43:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T17:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.observingbrazil.com\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2019-09-09T01:18:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T01:18:51","slug":"brazils-anti-corruption-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregmichener.com\/blog\/brazils-anti-corruption-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil’s Anti-Corruption Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

With impeachment little less than imminent, the question is whether a new government will strengthen or weaken the legislative tool-box of corruption-blasting policies I wrote about yesterday<\/a>. Given the PMDB\u2019s involvement in corruption allegations and its amorphous policy principles and democratic history, it is not surprising to read<\/a> that PMDB leaders in Congress are supporting legislative measures to<\/strong> weaken<\/strong> key plea bargaining arrangements.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s get this straight \u2013 if the Public Prosecutor and Federal Police lose the power to offer penalty-reductions in exchange for information that leads to the apprehension of wrongdoing (plea bargaining agreements), the current corruption purge will end.<\/p>\n

Enter the Public Prosecutor\u2019s office and its 10 Measures Against Corruption<\/a> campaign, which I outlined in my last post. The Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office deposited over 2 million signatures in Congress yesterday (see header pic) \u2013 enough to guarantee that this \u2018popular initiative\u2019 will receive constitutionally-mandated legislative priority. The initiative was supported by 1016 entities, including NGOs, churches, and universities. Power to the people!<\/p>\n

This is nothing less than exceptional bureaucratic activism on a scale never before witnessed in Brazil. The Public Prosecutor has struck genius in unleashing a splashy\u00a0anti-corruption legislative agenda at a moment when major players are beginning to\u00a0line up against the legislative causes of\u00a0the Car Wash investigation.<\/p>\n

The important thing now is to raise awareness regarding the sacrosanctity of the Anti-Corruption Law (12.846) and the Law on Criminal Organizations (12.850), both of which provide the criminal justice system with expansive plea bargaining provisions to unearth further graft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With impeachment little less than imminent, the question is whether a new government will strengthen or weaken the legislative tool-box of corruption-blasting policies I wrote about yesterday. Given the PMDB\u2019s involvement in corruption allegations and its amorphous policy principles and democratic history, it is not surprising to read that PMDB leaders in Congress are supporting Read more about Brazil’s Anti-Corruption Showdown<\/span>[…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,145],"tags":[151,13,3,152],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-rule-of-law","tag-anti-corruption-legislation","tag-brazil","tag-corruption","tag-public-prosecutor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmichener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmichener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmichener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmichener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmichener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregmichener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1615,"href":"https:\/\/gregmichener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions\/1615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmichener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmichener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmichener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmichener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}