Tag: Congress
Lula Hits Back at Brazilian Congress
Disgust is probably the best word to sum up the Brazilian electorate’s view of ...
An Update on Brazil’s Vote-for-Pay Scandal
Since the middle of last year the Brazilian political scene has been mostly dominated ...
Brazil: Election Gives Voters Chance to Clean Up Congress
Brazilian Congressmen have started to make some long-needed reforms in the House of Representatives. ...
Brazil Congress Gets 3 Extra Months for Expelling House Members
A vote on the floor of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies, on Wednesday, December 7, ...
Expelling Dirceu Restores Congress’s Dignity, Says Brazil’s Rapporteur
Brazilian Deputy Júlio Delgado from the Minas Gerais state PSB party, rapporteur in the ...
Expulsion Process Against Brazilian Congressmen to Go on, Justice Rules
Justice Carlos Velloso, of the Brazilian Supreme Court (Supremo Tribunal Federal), has ordered the ...
Seven Suitors to a Speaker’s Chair in Brazil
As Brazil’s political party leaders met to work out the details of the election ...
Brazil’s Congress Beheads Whistleblower
The Brazilian deputy who triggered the worst crisis in the country’s Congress in the ...
Group of Congressmen in Brazil Tries to Salvage Congress’s Image
In its continuing attempts to salvage the image of Brazilian Congress, a new organization, ...
Minister Pans Brazil’s Law Giving Congressmen Right to Be Judged by Supreme Court
The president of Brazil’s Federal Elections Court (TSE, Tribunal Superior Eleitoral), Minister Carlos Velloso, ...