The document discusses the Chamber of Deputies' decision not to approve opening an investigation into corruption charges against President Michel Temer. It argues the decision showed a lack of ethics and disregard for evidence, including an audio recording of Temer approving payments. The author claims Temer bought votes by increasing funds for parliamentary projects. The behavior is seen as an example of Machiavellian politics prioritizing the acquisition and maintenance of power over morality. The author calls for Temer's removal and a new constituent assembly to reform Brazil's political system.

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THE SHAMEFUL SUBMISSION OF THE MAJORITY OF THE CHAMBER OF
DEPUTIES TO CORRUPT MICHEL TEMER GOVERNMENT
Fernando Alcoforado *
The majority of the Chamber of Deputies gave a clear demonstration on 08/08/2017 that
it has no commitment to ethics and dignity and opposes the vast majority of the
population by not approving the opening of assigned passive corruption process against
President Michel Temer by the Attorney General Attorney of the Republic. Even in the
face of the evidence of Michel Temer's crime of passive corruption, the majority of the
Chamber of Deputies filed the process against the President of the Republic.
The majority of the Chamber of Deputies disregarded the dialogue between Michel
Temer and businessman Joesley Batista in a conversation in the dead of night outside
the agenda at the Jaburu Palace, on the basis of which Temer was accused by Rodrigo
Janot, Attorney General of the Republic, of had given his approval for Joesley to buy
the silence of Eduardo Cunha and his operator Lucio Funaro, who are in prison and
threatening to give away.
Before Joesley of JBS, Temer appointed Deputy Rodrigo Rocha Loures to resolve a
matter of J & F (holding that controls JBS). Later, Rocha Loures was filmed receiving a
R$ 500,000 inside suitcase sent by Joesley that would be destined for Michel Temer.
The audio of the recording delivered as evidence in the accusation of businessman
Joesley Batista subsidized Michel Temer's complaint of passive corruption, as well as
subsidizing two more accusations against Temer by the Attorney General of Republic
for obstruction of justice and criminal organization.
The decision of the majority of the Chamber of Deputies devoid of any ethical and
moral principle is attributed by the press to the purchase of votes of parliamentarians
promoted by President Michel Temer after accelerating the release of resources for the
parliamentary amendments and to commit R$ 3.9 billion in 50 days. Temer would have
spent 65.6% of the total amount available in this year 2017 for this purpose and now has
about R$ 2 billion for deputies and senators until December.
This episode demonstrates that Machiavelli was right when he stated in 1513 that what
the politician most desires is the conquest, conservation and expansion of power. To
achieve and retain that power no matter the means. The Brazilian political world is
governed by unorthodox acts, adjustments and agreements, has its own rules, and does
not follow the logic of Ethics that governs the moral conduct of people in general. As a
rule the politician is in the midst of ambitious, corrupt, violent, or insolent people. If he
does not know how to behave "realistically", he loses his power. It is the mutual
relations of force and not the intrinsic ethical disposition that dictate the most
appropriate political conduct.
Conquering and maintaining power is the essential purpose of politics. It is in this sense
that Machiavelli coined his famous and most controversial phrase: "The ends justify the
means". Machiavellianism thus became synonymous with a political practice devoid of
morality and in good faith, a cunning and rogue procedure that is exemplified by
deplorable behavior of the political class in Brazil. Michel Temer bought, paid and
buried a complaint of passive corruption in the Chamber of Deputies. Michel Temer and

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the parliamentarians who avoided him to transform into a defendant for the crime of
passive corruption acted Machiavellian In response to the 263 parliamentarians who
voted In favor of Michel Temer, the Brazilian people should repel their return to
parliament in the 2018 elections.
Ethical and moral disgrace is at the moment the endemic corruption that is strongly
present in Brazil. The practice of corruption affects all levels of government and all the
powers of the Republic. How to change this sad reality? There is only one way: the
removal of President Michel Temer, who does not have the conditions to remain in
command of the Brazilian nation and the constitution of a government of national
salvation, the convocation of an exclusive National Constituent Assembly to carry out
an effective political reform that contributes to build a real representative democracy in
Brazil centered on ethical and moral principles and then the holding of general elections
in the country.
The current moment is demanding not only the departure of President Michel Temer
and the exemplary punishment of the corrupt politicians who still rule in the country,
but above all the constitution of a government of national salvation composed of high
level people that should convene a National Assembly Exclusive Constituent to carry
out the political, State and Public Administration reforms. After the Constituent
Assembly, new general elections should be convened in the country.
The current political crisis in Brazil is demanding a profound change in its political and
legal superstructure through a National Constituent Assembly. This change cannot be
limited to the search for punctual improvements, but rather to structural improvements
that encompass the entire political, economic, and social system of Brazil. One of the
main objectives of a new Constituent Assembly in Brazil would be to make a political
reform to ensure the presence of authentic representatives of the people and to prevent
access to the Brazilian parliament of execrable figures, to create true political parties
and, in addition, to implant political mechanisms of social control of those elected by
political parties and by the population.
The realization of a new Constituent Assembly in Brazil would make it possible to
correct the distortions of the 1988 Constitution and make it possible to establish new
directions for Brazil, not only in economic, political and social terms, but also in ethical
and moral plans. The new Constituent may open the way to the changes required for
Brazil at the present time. This Constituent Assembly should not, however, participate
the current National Congress members, but citizens who are not committed to current
political practice and who decide to contribute to the reconstruction of the country's
political life.
In order to rebuild the political institutions of Brazil, it is necessary that the Brazilian
people mobilize to demand the removal of President Michel Temer from the presidency
of the Republic and the immediate convocation of a new National Constituent
Assembly to reorder the national political and economic life on new bases. The
exclusive Constituent Assembly to be convened to re-order the national life would have
as objective: 1) to carry out the reform of the country's political system with the
institutionalization of the district vote and the reduction of the number of
parliamentarians and their stewardships in the federal, state and municipal parliaments,
among other measures; 2) to promote the reform of the State and Public Administration

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on new bases; 3) ban political parties and parliamentarians committed to corruption; 4)
to form new political parties after the new Constituent Assembly; And, 5) to convene
new general elections in the country, among other measures. The exclusive Constituent
Assembly to be convened should also institute parliamentarism and decide for the end
of the Federal Senate with the institutionalization of the unicameral system.
*Fernando Alcoforado, member of the Bahia Academy of Education and the Brazilian Academy of
Letters of the Rotary - Bahia Section, engineer and doctor of Territorial Planning and Regional
Development from the University of Barcelona, a university professor and consultant in strategic
planning, business planning, regional planning and planning of energy systems, is the author of
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Barcelona, http://www.tesisenred.net/handle/10803/1944, 2003), Globalização e Desenvolvimento
(Editora Nobel, São Paulo, 2006), Bahia- Desenvolvimento do Século XVI ao Século XX e Objetivos
Estratégicos na Era Contemporânea (EGBA, Salvador, 2008), The Necessary Conditions of the
Economic and Social Development-The Case of the State of Bahia (VDM Verlag Dr. Muller
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Planetária (P&A Gráfica e Editora, Salvador, 2010), Amazônia Sustentável- Para o progresso do Brasil e
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Os Fatores Condicionantes do Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2012),
Energia no Mundo e no Brasil- Energia e Mudança Climática Catastrófica no Século XXI (Editora CRV,
Curitiba, 2015), As Grandes Revoluções Científicas, Econômicas e Sociais que Mudaram o Mundo
(Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2016) and A Invenção de um novo Brasil (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2017), among
others