Serra last week confronted the governments of Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela, which had denounced Temer’s takeover as a coup against Rousseff.
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Falcao, who referred to the acting president as a “coup leader”, “illegal” and a “usurper”, said that the PT may call a large national demonstration on June 1, when “possibly” Rousseff’s defence will be presented before the Senate, tasked with holding the impeachment trial to which she must submit.
“We could no longer ignore these crimes and thus voted for impeachment”, one senator, Álvaro Dias said, said shortly before voting.
“Even if President Rousseff is ultimately replaced, we think this toxic combination of heady stock valuations, corrupt politics and a sickly economy means investors should avoid Brazil”, said Syme, adding it was “fanciful to expect a new and clean broom to undertake painful but necessary economic reforms”.
A poster with the photo of Suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is seen at the Planalto Presidential Palace, during a meeting bewtween Brazil’s acting President Michel Temer and trade unions, on the government’s proposal for Social Security reform, at the Planalto Presidential Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, May 16, 2016.
After an all-night session, senators voted 55 to 22 to suspend her from office and send her to trial on allegations of budgetary “violations”.
Brazil’s Senate voted last week to impeach Rousseff and she faces trial on charges of breaking budgetary rules.
Outside Congress, where a metal fence was put up to keep apart rival protests, about 6000 backers of impeachment had earlier chanted “Out with Dilma” while police used pepper spray to disperse gangs of Rousseff supporters, who hurled flares back.
While she was never implicated herself, numerous alleged bribes happened over the 13 years her Workers’ Party ran the country.
Brazil’s interim president, Michel Temer, has guaranteed that the Olympic Games will start in less than three months at the famous Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro.
But he promised the new government would also continue the leftist Rousseff’s popular social programmes. This is despite the fact the fact that the last census found that over 51% of Brazilians are female and 50.7% of Brazilians now define themselves as black or mixed race. The union “won’t recognize putschists as rulers”, it said in a statement that also demanded Rousseff’s reinstatement. They include Romero Juc á, the planning minister and head of Temer’s party, the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party.
A regional diplomatic storm was also brewing, with El Salvador among countries opposing the Temer government. Current central bank chief Alexandre Tombini has struggled throughout Rousseff’s five years in office to cool inflation.
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Brazilian website CartaCapital reported that of the 24 men Temer appointed to his cabinet, seven appear on a list of officials suspected of links to a massive corruption scandal centred on Brazil’s state-owned oil giant Petrobras.
