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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, let us look again at this because these are our own brothers and sisters, people who qualify to have gone to work outside. These are people who would have worked for NGOs or in some international jobs, but they stayed to work for this Government. When these new positions are coming up, we are all saying that these people should not be considered. I want to urge the House and my colleagues to look at this issue again. Please, let us not condemn our fellows who opted to stay put working under a very difficult regime, namely, the former President and, in fact, the current President. Sometimes these people work under very difficult circumstances. Some of those that we condemn here and say they are corrupt were, in fact, instructed by the very politicians who today are sitting here to say that they are corrupt. Some of them lived under fear of getting telephone calls telling them: “You must give that procurement order to this company.” Today, when they apply for jobs in a new environment, an environment that says that we shall support good governance, we want to condemn them. I reject that attitude. Let us be fair to everyone, particularly to those who have worked for the Government under difficult circumstances. I want to repeat that it is unfair to condemn these people at this point."
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