ELECTIONS AND JUSTICE
Lula vetoes Clean Slate for Jair Bolsonaro
Opinions on the Clean Slate Law depend on who’s affected by it. Jair Bolsonaro was for it, then against. Photo: Ricardo Stuckert/PR
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has vetoed key parts of a bill that would have softened Brazil’s Clean Slate Act, the 2010 law that bars candidates convicted by a collegiate panel of judges from running for office for a period of eight years.
That ineligibility clock only starts after the judges’ final decision or the end of the term in which the abuse occurred, which can keep politicians out of two general election cycles. In cases of abuse of economic or political power, the new text would start the count at…
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