Dec 30th 2011, 17:02 by H.J. | SÃO PAULO
WHEN Brazil’s lawmakers come back in February after their
summer breaks, they will find a long-absent colleague among them. On
December 22nd, ten years after renouncing his Senate seat in order to
avoid being impeached for corruption claims—and more than a year after
1.8m residents of the vast Amazonian state of Pará voted for his
return—Jader Barbalho is back to Brasília once more. Since Congress was
already in recess, eight of his peers had to be called back from
holidays to swear him in.
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