A campaign against corruption

Yeah, business is up when you talk about politics in Brazil. It’s been like this every since we can remember. "Ficha Limpa" is cleaning up the house. It’s beginning of a revolution.
These "politicians" manage their life as a if the State,Municipality or the Country are its own property. It passes from generation to generation. It´s not just business; it´s a family business.
I am one of those people who signed the petition. It ran over the internet. We are beginning something new. Renovate our democracy is not going to be easy. But it´s going to be worth it.

Very good article.

Best Regards,

Marcelo Misael

Great article.
There are many organizations involved in this process, but mainly the MCCE (Movement for Combating Electoral Corruption)which has been working against electoral corruption for many years in Brasil.
The best approach of the campaign was to bring together those who suffer the most with corruption, the population. 1 500 000 signatures on paper, plus 2 million over the internet. Ficha Limpa brought back to us (Brazilians) the perception that we need to participate actively in our political system, fight (with our voices and actions) if necessary. No more" "nothing will change".
It may take some time, but nothing will be the same. Ficha Limpa JA!

See with your eyes all the work to get this bill approved: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fichalimpa/

I have the best hopes that this is not another "alibi law"; unfortunatly, Justice seems way faster in granting injunctions than in convicting criminals.
Fleischer's statistics point out to a great picture. But in my opinion, cases such as Roriz's, who leads the voting intentions in the Federal District, despite having resigned to avoid being impeached as a Senator, are still noteworthy. Especially in a city with higher-than-average education standards.

Well,everybody knows that theres´s a long way to go to Brazil but we all may recognize that it´s a good step in the direction of a more active society taking care of those basic instruments that guaranty a more solidy and just society. No more easy authorithy to some who only care for their own and their closest group interest.

Great article! But it is important to remember that many of these politicians have been reelected again and again despite numerable denounces of corruption. This law is mostly welcome, but if we were less complacent with corruption in general, it would not be necessary. As they say, each people has the government it deserves...

Ficha Limpa sounds like a great idea, except Brazil's corruption
runs way deep. Since Brazil has changed Masters from USA to China,
it would be in Brazil's interest to copy China and implement, say,
"Ficha Completamente Limpa.'
http://www.danwei.org/front_page_of_the_day/wen_qiang_executed.php

Alas, some quarters would say, but the end result would be a
completely clean house, er, and Senate too.

Well, well, it seems Lula has been fined for illegal political
campaigning on behalf of Dilma...
http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2010/07/16/brazil-the-ghost-of-bp-overs...
Read the article and the mention in the middle of it.

Good to know that something is happening while Lula is only concerned about the 2014 World Cup in Brazil!

Great article about Brazilian's corruption. Unfortunately the "Ficha Limpa" project has not the solution because the most important problem is about the system law, always corrupts has a trick in the law to get their rights OK, even the most of them has their names in the black list. Sometimes I think that this efforts is just to show that "We are trying to clean up corruptions" and the other hand corrupts knows that always has an escape from this laws. It's Brazil!

One more item. Perhaps the next government should in tandem
clear up the bureaucracy that has afflicted Brazil for many
decades.

http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2010/07/09/bad-airports-might-ground-br...

Remember TAM flight 5034 (accident Sao Paulo)
and Marco Aurelio Garcia (the indiferent government official)?
Next time, M.A.G. won't have an excuse. It won't be some "worthless" Brazilians perishing from some bad infrastructure. It will be
foreign nationals with plenty of cash and a voice.