Período de vigência
2006 a 2017
2006 a 2017
Financiadores
United Nations Democracy Fund, Revista Veja
United Nations Democracy Fund, Revista Veja
Over the course of eleven years, Transparência Brasil aggregated, made available and kept updated the Excelênciasplatform with as much data as possible on the country’s parliamentarians in office. The “files” for each politician included accountability and electoral financing, involvement in corruption reported by the press, and legal cases to which they were liable or for which they had been convicted.
The project required costly research and information construction work. Access to cases in the more than 100 courts of justice and accounts, for example, depended on manual and individual consultation. Data was collected manually from at least five public sources and from two TB projects, Deu no Jornal and Às Claras.
By adding different data to its base, Excelências built up new information that made it possible to understand the profile of parliamentarians, generating concrete data on the state of corruption in Brazilian politics. The initiative was widely celebrated by the press from start to finish and, for its irrefutable public contribution, received the Esso Award for Best Contribution to the Press in 2006.
Excelências contributed directly to the public debate that led to the grassroots Ficha Limpa campaign, as it made it possible to find out precisely and easily which politicians were involved in corruption and other crimes. The initiative of 1.6 million Brazilians gave rise to the Ficha Limpa bill (PL Complementar nº 518/09), which was approved by the National Congress and sanctioned by the Presidency of the Republic in June 2010.
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