BRAZILIAN DEMOCRACY - A REFLECTION
In simple words, a democracy is a state ruled by representatives chosen by the people and from the people. There are the executive, legislative, and judiciary branches. These three branches are supposed to work in balance and harmony in order for democracy to function. If any one of them starts to get off track, the other two must intervene to bring it back.
In Brazil, we have a government similar to the US. The president is the chief of the executive branch and, different from the US, is directly elected by the people. We have "Câmara dos Deputados" equivalent to the House of Representatives, and the Senate which are the legislative branches that are also directly elected by the people. The third and final branch is the Supreme Court which is not elected, instead is nominated by the president and must be approved by the senate. Although the structure is standard to most democracies, the iteration among them was out of the norm.
As mentioned in the previous post, there was an investigation that uncovered the largest corruption scheme in Brazilian history, the largest not the first. Simply explain, it worked by taking money from state-owned companies through overpriced contracts to payoff congressmen and senators to vote with whatever the president wanted. In theory, we had two independent parties of democracy, in reality, we had the executive and legislative merged into one. This scheme lasted for a decade or so and during that time, many supreme court judges were nominated.
It started as an intended democracy but it got shifted along the way to something I can’t define.
Please, help spread the word to the international audience. traditional media don’t give the deserved importance to what is happening, and when it does seem they are on the wrong side.
#grownostr #nocensorship #helpbrazil #democracy
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