Twenty years ago, the then deputy denouncing the. According to Jefferson, the government would be paying a allowance to parliamentarians who voted in favor of their proposals in Congress.
It has profoundly changed Brazilian politics, but most of the public has not yet realized its developments.
In his book “Steel Nerves” (Record, 2006), Jefferson gave more details about what he was reporting. In the right -wing governments, parties such as the PTB received ministries or the head of public agencies and charged there a bribe (“Caixa two”) from companies that did business with the Public Administration.
When it came to the government, a new problem arose: by ideological differences, the PT did not want to position the right -wing allies. He then started to charge the bribery of the companies and to distribute the money to the allies. Jefferson’s struggle, he says with all the lyrics in the book, was for the right to collect his own box two.
Even petistas who recognize that the money given to the allies was dirty never admitted that they organized the allowance. We will never know if it is true: the investigation should have started breaking the bank secrecy of all right -wing parliamentarians that the PT, according to Jefferson, bought.
But this class also sold itself in other governments and would still be sold to many others. No one wanted them to open their beak.
The trial of the monthly gave to a status he had never had. The STF was already responsible for judging politicians, but it had never happened, because only the right ruled until 2003. And the right had a shield, built during the dictatorship and preserved in the transition to democracy: permanent parliamentary majority, predominance in the media, support of the economic elite.
It is because the Supreme Court began to judge politicians in the monthly that Bolsonaro’s scammers had so many allies when they started their coup crusade. For the far right of Jair, attacks on the STF are only page one of the modern dictator’s manual, the same one that made Chávez, Orban, Erdogan; For the rest of the right, it’s a way to threaten the Supreme Court: If you judge us as the petistas judged, it will be bad.
The monthly took the PT the middle -class electorate, which began to associate the party with. But what happened to the right -wing parties that the PT, according to Jefferson, bought?
Thanks to the right -wing wave that overthrew the PT in 2016 and elected Bolsonaro in 2018, they are the most powerful parties in Brazil. Since the 2017 political reform have been building rich party machines. Valdemar Costa Neto’s PL is Bolsonaro’s party, which makes perfect sense: the 1964 coup was also deeply thief. The PP was stuck with União Brasil and became the largest bench in Congress. Roberto Jefferson is arrested for shooting at the police defending Jair’s coup d’état.
Nowadays they live on amendments that exceed the value of the monthly in various orders of greatness. They have already gotten rid of the PSDB and wait, when Lula leaves the scene, getting rid of the PT, reigning absolutes about the public budget, with the pockets to threaten those who try to judge their schemes.
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