Tag: Antonio Anastasia

• Thursday, October 10th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  Brazil's Senate to hold a final vote on pension reform on 22 October

  

  Brazil’s Senate will hold the second and final vote on pension reform on Oct. 22, party leaders agreed on Tuesday night after long discussions, according to Senator Antonio Anastasia of the Brazilian Social Democratic Party.

• Wednesday, August 3rd 2016 - 07:24 UTC

  Brazilian caipirinha: Rousseff impeachment and Olympics take off this week

  

  Brazil's long-running presidential impeachment drama starts to unveil this week just as the Rio Olympics sprints out of the starting blocks. Suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who is accused of breaking budgetary laws, is staying away from the opening ceremony in Rio.

• Saturday, May 28th 2016 - 06:25 UTC

  Rousseff's final impeachment vote in the Senate scheduled for August

  

  “The impeachment effort against suspended President Dilma Rousseff may reach a final decision in August, according to a work schedule presented Wednesday by Senator Antonio Anastasia, rapporteur of the current Procedural Commission for the Impeachment,” the state news agency Agencia Brasil reported on Wednesday.

• Thursday, May 5th 2016 - 07:30 UTC

  Senate impeachment committee votes on Friday on Rousseff's political future

  

  The rapporteur of a Senate committee on impeachment issued a report Wednesday recommending that Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff be tried in the upper house for allegedly breaking budget laws.