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Weekly Report - 29 May 2014 (WR-14-21)
BRAZIL: Government sympathiser leads mixed congressional inquiry
Senator Vital do Rego, of the government-allied Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (PMDB), is going to be a busy man over the next few months. Already the president of the senate-led inquiry [CPI] into allegations of corruption and mismanagement at Petrobras, the state oil company, Do Rego was elected on 28 May as the president of the mixed congressional inquiry. The vote was a disappointment for the government’s opponents, who expect the mixed congressional inquiry to make life difficult for President Dilma Rousseff. Considered a “white-wash” by the opposition, the senate inquiry has already been going on for two weeks. It has heard from a number of significant Petrobras executives, including its current president, Maria das Graças Silva Foster, without generating any major headlines.
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