[–] 6 points 1 month ago

giving packages of public land worth up to £2m each to community-led organisations such as housing co-operatives, on the condition that they build social housing.

There better be something to deal with potential astroturfing, because a for-profit company can easily make a "community-led organisation"

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Lula was more of the latter. Senate and chamber of deputies, which hold a lot of power over the president^[Seriously, the chamber of deputies has tried to implement a parliamentary presidency since 1990, but public support never went past 30%. Despite that, they keep approving laws giving themselves more power. They can unilaterally veto almost anything the president does, including presidential vetoes to laws.], have PL (Liberal Party, the shit that houses bozo and other trump-sucking drama clowns) as the majority party, with other right wing parties accounting for over half of all seats in both cases. It was already this bad during this last term of his, it'll be even worse now.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    There's no real ideology behind flavio bozo, he has the mentality of a petty criminal who got too much money and is trying to avoid being caught. He has managed that thus far, despite many spotlights showing how rotten he is.

    Then again, the largest political force in Brazil for the past 20 years has been antipetismo, simply being against PT (Worker's party). For a lot of people, anything is better than PT and Lula. Democracy is a perpetual risk of putting asinine demagogues in power.

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