An anti-government demonstrator cries after the lower house of Congress voted to impeach Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, April 17, 2016.
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She said that despite the upheaval, the Olympics, due to be hosted in Rio de Janeiro in August, will go well.
Next month, Brazil’s Senate is expected to vote to temporarily remove Dilma Rousseff from office pending an impeachment trial in the Supreme Court.
“In this way, the Chamber of Deputies is threatening to interrupt 30 years of democracy in the country”, he said, referring to the end of a military dictatorship in 1985. “But today he represents a change”.
Polls showed that both supporters and opponents of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff back the impeachment of Vice President Michel Temer.
Political scientist Bruno de Moura Borges sees a common thread of frustration driving the widespread citizen support for impeachment.
The heavy margin of defeat in Sunday’s vote shocked many Workers Party insiders, who blamed treachery by allied parties.
More than two-thirds of the lower house of Brazil’s Congress voted to impeach Rousseff, setting the stage for the Senate to deliberate impeachment. It’s a relatively common political tactic in Brazil, analysts say.
“I have strength, spirit and courage”. Should a simple majority be reached in its first vote, the Senate would take up the measure, and Rousseff would be forced to suspend her presidency for 180 days, during which Vice President Michel Temer would serve as acting president.
We appreciate the rhetoric about stopping corruption and fighting crime, but those are objectives we rightfully expect any candidate to pursue, and are not by themselves reasons to vote for anyone.
The central bank stayed away from the foreign exchange market on Tuesday after weeks of heavy intervention to prevent the real from strengthening further ahead of last Sunday’s controversial impeachment vote.
Senior Workers Party figures have pledged, if necessary, to take their struggle onto the streets, raising concerns that it could seek to destabilise a future Temer government. They expressed opposition towards Rousseff’s impeachment, saying an “illegitimate government will have no peace”. “The people are now awake and scrutinizing their politicians”.
When Rousseff’s congressional coalition began crumbling and the movement to impeach her began past year, Calheiros came to her aid. Although Rousseff hasn’t yet been directly implicated, she is the company’s former chair and has routinely bungled the two-year-long scandal.
Calheiros said Rousseff requested a meeting with him later Monday.
“Every party is a corrupt party and you have to choose the least worst”, says Fernandes. Under most conditions, these charges wouldn’t lead to impeachment. However, the speed of the process depends on Senate leader Renan Calheiros, who could potentially drag for months any trial and final decision on whether she should be removed from office. “We lost because the coup-mongers were stronger”.
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She said that she had not committed any actions which warranted her impeachment. “They are just trying to solve the problem” they face, whether it’s the economy or a sense of negligence by elected officials.
