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> When it results in the installation of someone who is just as corrupt, then it invites questioning on the efficacy, and true goal, of the process. Actually,
by bubuga 10y ago
> When it results in the installation of someone who is just as corrupt, then it invites questioning on the efficacy, and true goal, of the process.
Actually, it doesn't.
The judicial process goes on, and if (or when) the next-in-line is caught in the dragnet then the same fate awaits him.
This is the main thing about Dilma Roussef's partisans that leaves everyone dumbfounded. Their argument essentially boils down to "this is somehow a coup because although my guy is corrupt as hell, so is the next-in-line, therefore we should keep my corrupt guy and all their cronies immune to any accountability and impervious to the democratic process because that suits my fancy".
But this line of reasoning only further worsens Brazil's corruption problem.