The proposal was made more than a week ahead of a Senate impeachment vote against Rousseff on August 25, four days after the end of the Olympics being held in Rio de Janeiro.
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Rousseff said she will answer questions when she appears in the Senate to present her final defense in the impeachment trial, expected on August 29.
Senate president Renan Calheiros said the vote would likely take place on August 30, the day after Rousseff testifies.
Rousseff stands accused of seeking to hide public budget deficits through fiscal irregularities, such as delaying loan payments to public banks and ordering additional loans without congressional approval.
In his time as interim president, Temer himself under investigation for corruption has pushed privatizations and sales of state assets, ideas that are strongly opposed by the majority of those who voted to give Rousseff a second four-year term in October 2014.
If the Senate votes in favor of impeaching Rousseff, she will be officially ousted from her post.
A two-thirds majority in the Senate vote is needed to remove Rousseff from office.
A spokesman for Rousseff told AFP that the leader would defend herself in person.
On Aug. 29, Rousseff will have 30 minutes to speak, then face questioning.
“The full restoration of democracy requires that the population decide what is the best way to. flawless the Brazilian political and electoral system”.
“I’ve never been afraid of that”. I’ve endured much worse tension in my life.
“The reduction of taxes for businesses didn’t result in gains for the whole economy”, she told foreign correspondents in Brasilia.
On Tuesday, Rousseff, 68, read out a letter to the Brazilian people admitting she had made mistakes but proclaiming her innocence.
“The full restoration of democracy requires that the population decide what is the best way to.ideal the Brazilian political and electoral system”. In May of this year, she was suspended to face impeachment proceedings.
But Rousseff, a former leftist guerrilla who was imprisoned and tortured under the military dictatorship in the 1970s, repeated her insistence that forcing her out through impeachment amounts to a coup. She describes the impeachment as a farce and her alleged crimes as no more than “routine acts of budgetary management”.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday authorized an investigation into allegations that Rousseff tried to obstruct a corruption probe into the state oil firm Petrobras.
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The decision is likely to escalate pressure on the two leading political figures, whose Workers Party is ensnared in an ongoing bribes-for-state contracts scandal known in Brazil as ‘operation auto wash’. Lula and several former ministers of Rousseff’s administration will reportedly be investigated for obstruction of justice as well.
