Brazil’s ex-president Dilma Rousseff filed a Supreme Court challenge today asking for the overturning of a Senate impeachment vote that removed her from office.
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Sixty-one senators voted in favor of removing Rousseff from the presidency; 20 voted against her impeachment.
For more than 10 months, the leftist leader has fought efforts to impeach her for frontloading funds for government social programmes and issuing spending budget decrees without congressional approval ahead of her reelection in 2014.
Brazil’s new leader Michel Temer began his presidency in earnest Thursday vowing to heal the crisis-stricken Latin American giant after senators fired his defiant rival Dilma Rousseff in an emotional impeachment trial and amid a massive corruption scandal.
Michel Temer continues to be sworn in as president and will serve out Ms Rousseff’s duration until 1. Temer pledges to pull Brazil together and rescue the country from its economic slump.
Soldiers march in the garden of the official presidential residence Alvorada Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016.
The Ecuadorian Government has expressed its disappointment at the impeachment of Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff.
Rousseff has won all of her elections but support from the population and Congress dropped after the economy started declining. Rousseff began her presidency with the economy growing at nearly 5 percent.
While the vote to oust her from office was decisive, a motion to bar her from holding any public office for the next eight years failed.
Late Wednesday night, a group of Rousseff supporters smashed windows of bank branches, other businesses and a police vehicle in the city of Sao Paulo. “It’s you who is breaking the constitution”.
Pledging to appeal against her dismissal, she told her supporters: “I will not say goodbye to you”.
She said it was “an irony of history” that she would be judged for crimes she did not commit, by people accused of serious crimes.
In the first, made at a meeting of his ministers, he promised to “take the offensive home” regarding attacks from the opposition – and urged unhappy allies to leave his government.
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Information for this article was contributed by Mauricio Savarese and Peter Prengaman of The Associated Press.
