BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS / Šturma, Mozetic (eds)

that more than 90 parliamentarians were involved in the scheme. The scheme advanced the payment of the bribe to the parliamentarians, who presented amendments to the Budget for the purchase of ambulances by prefectures, and the first step of the gang was to contact mayors, assisted by federal parliamentarians, to direct the bids in favor of Planam and other companies involved in the scheme. But this is not only the case, given that the constitution of the budget, as a procedure of competence of each State Power, through the legislative route, concerns the autonomy of the Powers, and this argument has generated a culture of lack of preventive and curative control of its formatting, situations have arisen in which corrupt political alliances and political articulations are instituted to put into the budgets fictitious public demands that, when approved and later, will generate bids and administrative contracts for the expenses indicated by the fictitious budget lines approved, but now the apparent legal form of the legislative authorization granted. How is Democracy going to survive all this but counting on the most effective participation of Civil Society, the State and the Market in the fight against Corruption ?! The protagonism of these initiatives, however, and in certain contexts of identity crisis of the Executive and Legislative Powers, provisionally and with caution to the restoration of public order, rests on the shoulders of the Judiciary, which should have more and more sensitivity to evaluate the limits of its interventions, failing to further collapse the fragile political representation of our country.

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