Cunha will add projects to the anti-corruption package.

The Speaker of the House said he intends to add to the anti-corruption package presented by President Dilma proposals from parliamentarians dealing with the same issue that are currently being processed in the House; "There are several bills here that will also be recovered. We will vote on proposals that the government is sending and also proposals initiated by the House," said Eduardo Cunha, shortly after a meeting with the Minister of Finance, Joaquim Levy.

March 18, 2015, 20:13 PMUpdated July 05, 2018, 11:01 pm

The Speaker of the House said he intends to add to the anti-corruption package presented by President Dilma proposals from parliamentarians dealing with the same issue that are currently being processed in the House; "There are several bills here that will also be recovered. We will vote on proposals that the government is sending and also proposals initiated by the House," said Eduardo Cunha, shortly after a meeting with the Minister of Finance, Joaquim Levy (Photo: Aquiles Lins).

Luciano Nascimento, from Agência Brasil - The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Eduardo Cunha (PMDB-RJ), said on Wednesday, the 18th, that he intends to add to the anti-corruption package presented by President Dilma Rousseff proposals from parliamentarians dealing with the same topic that are currently being processed in the House.

"There are several bills here that will also be revived. We will vote on proposals that the government is sending and also proposals initiated by the House," said Cunha, shortly after meeting with the Minister of Finance, Joaquim Levy.

The anti-corruption package sent by the government to the National Congress, officially launched this Wednesday, includes the criminalization of undeclared campaign contributions and the drafting of a bill that establishes the mandatory clean record requirement for all public servants in the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches.

A campaign promise of Dilma and delivered yesterday (17) to the president of Congress, Senator Renan Calheiros (PMDB-AL), by the Ministers of Justice, José Eduardo Cardozo, and of the Secretariat of Institutional Relations, Pepe Vargas, the package also contains a proposed amendment to the Constitution (PEC) to enable the confiscation of assets resulting from criminal activity, impropriety and illicit enrichment.

According to the proposal, anyone convicted of undeclared campaign contributions after the proposal's approval by Congress could face three to six years in prison. Attempting to defraud electoral oversight by inserting false information or omitting details to conceal the origin, destination, or application of assets, funds, or services in the accounting of a political party or electoral campaign will be considered a crime.