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Brazil Justices ban corporate contributions to political campaigns and parties
Brazil's Supreme Court banned corporate contributions to political campaigns and parties, a hot issue as investigators in the country's biggest corruption scandal say such financing was used by businesses to win lucrative contracts with state-run oil company Petrobras. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI do not know if the countries of you conservatives are corrupt. Minister Gilmar Mendes of the Supreme shelved the process of banning donations for 17 months to favor the conservative candidate Aécio Neves, who actually received a much higher value on corporate donations than Labour candidate Dilma Rousseff.
Sep 21st, 2015 - 09:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0The phrase 'closing the gate after the horse has bolted' jumps instantly to mind.
Sep 21st, 2015 - 01:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@1 Brasso
So having less money than Neves is why DumbAss Dilma won is it?
Ha, ha, ha.
She won that had a focused plan of government for the interests of Brazilians. Unlike the conservative candidate and his supporters who have a focused plan of government for the interests of big foreign companies and of the richs.
Sep 21st, 2015 - 02:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are full of shit Brasshole, Lula, Dilma and PT have managed to screw Brazil big time. By the way Neves comes from PSDB, a socialist party, just not as incompetent and idealogical as the current bunch of idiots
Sep 21st, 2015 - 04:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@1 brASsHOLE
Sep 21st, 2015 - 09:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Minister Gilmar Mendes of the Supreme shelved the process of banning donations for 17 months to favor the conservative candidate Aécio Neves, who actually received a much higher value on corporate donations than Labour candidate Dilma Rousseff”....
“sério ?... não diga ! ”
Brazzo, are you just stupid or are you a liar, paid by the PT to post all this disinformation ?
According to the election stats released September 2014, donations until then, to politicians, plus those to political Parties , totalled roughly R$ 1,138 billion . R$ 98 billion coming from a Political Fund (Fundo Partidário), created by the Government for this purpose, and R$ 1, 040 billion from Corporations. The largest donor was the JBS group (Friboi etc, of which Lula's genius son is a large shareholder), donated R$ 111 million. To the PT, 29 million, to the PT's main allies, PSB 16 million, and PMDB 14 million....plus more to other PT allies, totalling more than half to the PT coalition. This obviously does not include the bribery disguised as 'legal' donations from the Petrobras corruption scheme. And I suppose that it doesn't matter that 7 of the 10 largest donors - to the PT - were the engineering and construction companies caught up in the Lava-Jato (Car-Wash) investigation, where Lula's ex-top aides have just been condemned, some for the second time. And, as far as direct donations to presidential candidates are concerned, Dilma was # 1, receiving about 20% more than Aécio (R$ 9.7 million Dilma v. 8.10 million, Aécio.).
@3 brasshole,
Just a load of ideological shit fed to you by the PT.
Do a bit of serious research before you post so much rubbish.
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