corruption has depleted public funds and the cost of fighting this corruption is also high the federal government in brasilia has come to a near standstill the president and many of his ministers are devoting all their energy to defending themselves against the judiciary brazil is virtually paralyzed urgent reforms have been postponed ordinary citizens have less and less faith in their government. many are resting their hopes on general elections scheduled for october two thousand and eighteen but transparency international is skeptical. there is no assurance that what comes next is going to be better than what we have now the problem is that we haven t developed. a political culture or an i read new off our political culture we haven t three new of our political leadership we create these void and then what s going to fulfill it is populism outlawry tyrion ism and this back wall in this. type of politics this type of politics