ALL THE PRESIDENTS OF BRAZIL ARE UNDER POLICE INVESTIGATION

Collor, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Lula and Dilma have the police leg. Sarney was missing. It will not be. The Plateau is no longer a safe place or to Fear, the current tenant. Observers approve with caution

In 2012, in opinion polls published in Brazil about the trial of the monthly allowance, in the 1990 corruption scandal involving the dome of Lula's government (PT) and members of its broad power base, the majority of respondents replied that the if not going to give anything. "Have you ever seen rich and powerful in jail in this country? » Argued ordinary people interviewed on the street. Became consensual say, in cafes meetings, internet forums or round tables on TV that «everything will end in pizza, «the Brazilian expression equivalent to» end up in cod waters As is known, the most mediatic of the defendants, Jose Dirceu, history PT and all-powerful former minister of the Civil House of Lula, was even sentenced to more than ten years in prison. The president and the treasurer of the party ditto, plus dozens of politicians and managers.

Less than four years later, in Brazil no one comes to pizza. José Sarney, PMDB soul, Brazil's largest party, has just seen its golden retirement in Maranhao state whose family (or allies) ruled for half a century, shaken by an arrest warrant requested by Rodrigo Janot, Attorney General of the Republic Sarney who presided in the 1980s.

"We are witnessing the biggest purge that this political class formed after 1945 has passed, the political class and the political party system are annoyed as the population celebrates, is a new Brazil," argues political scientist Paul Bay to DN.

Collor de Mello, the first post-democracy president-elect and only (for now) removed from office, he came to call, in the Senate, "motherfucker" to Janot. It was days after police seize three cars allegedly paid with money diverted from petrolão.

Fernando Henrique Cardoso (PSDB), Minister of Finance of the late Franco and later president, testified in April to federal police on the case of payment to an ex - lover through a fictitious contract with a company with good traffic in Brasilia during your government.

A case that arose in the press while Lula's successor F.H.C., was taken to a police station to answer on undeclared possession of two properties paid by construction companies linked to petrolão. Because of the connection to another construction company, Odebrecht is international influences trafficking suspect.

His successor, Dilma Rousseff (PT), is judged by the Senate because of "fiscal cycling" has the accounts of his campaign in 2014 under investigation by the Electoral Court and was cited twice informers Lava-Jato. Michel Temer (PMDB), the replacement was quoted more times.

"It's a structural issue," warns the DN columnist Carta Capital magazine Matheus Pichonelli. "And only have healthy effects if the public understand that these vices do not belong to one or the other political side but to a structure, otherwise the possibility of falling into opportunistic tales with messianic speeches is huge," he adds.

In addition to the tenants of the Plateau, also 40% of senators and 150 deputies have unresolved issues with justice. Including the presidents of the two houses, Renan Calheiros and Eduardo Cunha, both the PMDB and the two prisons in the list requested by Janot. In government, despite two ministers have already fallen by obstructing Wash Jet, half of them are still the target of justice for different reasons. And Aécio Neves, the PSDB, the candidate defeated by Rousseff in 2014, is, as one joked Member of PT, "quoted in all Brazil documents from the letter of Pero Vaz de Caminha."

Even more surprising: stars on the other hand, the private, as builders Marcelo Odebrecht and Otavio Azevedo or banker André Esteves, once frequent in the columns of social, or are passed by police dungeons. And José Dirceu, of course, too. But among the trial of the monthly allowance and the case of petrolão the former right-hand man of Lula went from headline to footnote.