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Whoever judges lawmakers can't be a lawmaker

Abestadão argues that the ethics councils of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate should be made up of citizens from civil society, with fixed terms and no party affiliation. As long as colleague judges colleague, ethics in Congress will keep getting shelved.