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Brazil’s Rousseff Vetoes Law Allowing for Corporate Donations

By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter

SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff vetoed a bill which would make it legal for companies to donate funds to political campaigns. The issue has been a point of disagreement between the Chamber of Deputies, which passed the bill authorizing the donations, the Senate, which prohibited the donations, and the Supreme Court, which found corporate donations to be unconstitutional.

“The possibility of donations and contributions by corporate entities to political parties and electoral campaigns would confront the political equality and republican and democratic principles, as decided by the Federal Supreme Court . . .

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