Renan Santos: In Brazil, all parties exist to participate in elections, to elect deputies, and the more deputies a party elects, the more money the party gets.
Renan Santos: I'll give an example.
If a political party elects, let's say, 12 federal deputies, it earns almost 90 million reais per year.
Renan Santos: Just for having elected 12 federal deputies.
Renan Santos: If it elects 12 federal deputies, it also receives, in addition to that money, only in the election year, about 100 million reais.