Rousseff announces Brazil anti-corruption measures
Rousseff announces Brazil anti-corruption measures
18 March 2015 23:51 (Last updated 18 March 2015 23:54)
President delivers to Congress a string of anti-graft measures after mass protests rail against rampant corruption in the country
SAO PAULO
President Dilma Rousseff handed Brazil's Congress a package of long-awaited anti-corruption measures Wednesday, three days after mass protests demanded her impeachment and the ouster of corrupt politicians.
Rousseff delivered the bundle of anti-corruption measures symbolically at a ceremony held at the presidential Planalto Palace.
"We are a government that does not compromise on corruption ... This is a decisive step to increase the government's ability and power to prevent and combat corruption and impunity," she said.
The plans include the expansion of the so-called "Ficha Limpa" law until that will now require all government officials to have a clean criminal record, as well as the criminalization of unregulated electoral campaign slush funds, known as "Caixa dois," and the seizure of assets of those convicted of corruption.
The president said the move was "in line with her personal and political life, and actions taken as president" but warned that "aside from these laws, a new conscience is required; a new culture in the country" which needed to be "born in every citizen's household, school, heart and soul."
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