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Brazil & Southern Cone - April 2005 (ISSN 1741-4431)
Cavalcanti appointment stirs debate on nepotism
The appointment of José Maurício Cavalcanti, the son of the new president of the lower chamber of congress, Severino Cavalcanti, as the federal superintendent for the ministry of agriculture in his home state of Pernambuco on 11 April reopened the debate on laws banning nepotism in Brazilian politics. A proposed law banning the employment of family members and close associates without holding an external application process has been stalled in congress for nine years. Now, it seems, the public has had enough and is pressuring for the practice to
stop
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