Brazil's Chamber of Deputies(Lower House)Bans Secret Voting Tuesday Sep 3,2013

Brazil's Chamber of Deputies has approved a ban on secret voting in both houses of Congress.

In a unanimous late-night vote on Tuesday Sep 3,2013 the 452 deputies present voted to abolish secret voting in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.

The measure, which will now have to be approved by the Senate, had been a key demand by protesters who took to the streets of major cities in June 2013

They said they wanted more transparency to know where their parliamentary representatives stood on key decisions.