RenovaBR: The Privatisation of Brazilian Politics
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Launched in October 2017, “leadership training and civic engagement initiative” RenovaBR claims to be a response to endemic corruption in politics. Through the “selection and preparation of future leaders”, the neoliberal organisation, backed by a familiar alliance of Wall Street lobbies and Brazilian business elites, seeks to dominate Brazilian political decision making using candidates spread across many different parties. It is in effect a bid for control of a post-Bolsonaro scenario by the same economic interests which helped bring him to power…