Brazil’s Rousseff Pushes Anti-Graft Bills as Her Approval Sinks
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President Dilma Rousseff proposed tougher anti-corruption legislation on Wednesday as her approval plummeted to a record low following mass protests on Sunday.
The bills, if approved by Congress, would require a clean record for civil servants, allow ill-gotten gains to be confiscated and sold, and make under-the-table campaign donations a crime. The proposals came hours after Rousseff’s approval rating fell to a record of 13 percent from 23 percent in February according to a Datafolha poll published on Folha de Sao Paulo’s website.