Weekly Report - 1 July 2010 (WR-10-26)

The government sent a bill to congress this week to speed up the tendering process for World Cup projects following criticism from the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). But the bill, which waters down rules regulating tendering procedures, raised concerns of possible corruption in World Cup projects, leading to another clash between the Lula administration and the Tribunal de Contas da União (TCU), the independent overseer of the government's accounts.