A political campaign fund set up in Brazil with public money to help fight corruption is not big enough for the country’s 2018 general election, the head of the country’s top electoral court said. Brazil’s scandal-plagued political class voted to establish the 1.7 billion Reais (US$542 million) fund to finance election campaigns after corporate donations were banned in the wake of the country’s biggest ever corruption scandal. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesREF: Backers of the fund said organized crime would step in to finance politicians if taxpayer funds were not made available:
Oct 10th, 2017 - 04:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0AS IF the Backers+Opposition aren't ALREADY enjoying the donations from the Crime-Syndicates and at the same time; milking the Taxpayers!!! :o))
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