It’s very interesting how the Brazilian political model works, anyone is legitimate to create a party, an interesting project with enough people interested and you might be approved, today we have around 26 parties in Brazil.
Generally speaking the objective of the politicians is to represent the population and take decisions in their benefits. Unfortunately what you see and hear from them it’s not it, once they need you to put them upstairs they do anything for you, when they are there, they forget you.
Today is happening something very interesting that clearly shows it, we have a temporary tax called CPMF, it’s based on the financial transactions you do, every cent you move 0.38% is for CPMF, everyone in the country is affected and should be over on December 31 of 2007, but might be prorogued by 4 more years if voted so.
We have a party that is very strong, might have the majority of the votes, their decision was to vote for not proroguing it, it’s clear that they are doing this not thinking in the benefits of the population, but creating a strategy to make their opponents weaker.
My question is, would they make this same decision if they were in the power?
