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As Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff, struggles to control a fragile coalition government plagued by corruption scandals, getting new legislation passed quickly may prove difficult.
Brazil’s long-awaited freedom of information bill, which would allow greater access to public information and records, aims to make the government more transparent and hold government officials and agencies more accountable.
Brazilian senator, Fernando Collor, has recently proposed changes to the bill, a move that could delay it getting passed, according to the Christian Science Monitor.
It is not clear whether Rousseff has the support she needs in the Senate to get the bill passed quickly and without too many amendments.
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