Tag: Dilma Roussef impeachment

• Saturday, January 30th 2016 - 11:53 UTC

  Brazil ends 2015 with record deficits: primary, 1.88% and fiscal 10.34%, of GDP

  

  Brazil posted a primary budget deficit in 2015 of 111.25 billion Reais (roughly $27.29 billion), the biggest since the data series began in 2001, the Central Bank said on Friday. The primary budget deficit (before interest payments), equivalent to 1.88% of GDP, was more than triple the primary budget gap in 2014 (32.5 billion reais, or 0.57% of GDP).

• Wednesday, January 20th 2016 - 08:06 UTC

  Rousseff's impeachment chances dying out as main ally is strongly divided on the issue

  

  President Dilma Rousseff’s opponents in the fractious Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) are losing hope that they can impeach the leader and replace her with their man, Vice-President Michel Temer.

• Monday, January 4th 2016 - 07:09 UTC

  Brazil's Rousseff faces Olympic political and financial challenges this year

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff began the new year on the offensive declaring the impeachment proceedings she faces as “unfair” and overruling by veto more than 50 amendments made by lawmakers to the nation’s budget, including reductions to her flagship Bolsa Familia social program.

• Wednesday, December 23rd 2015 - 09:42 UTC

  Rousseff off the hook until February: Supreme Court and Congress in recess

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said on Tuesday that her opponents' bid to impeach her has no legal basis since there are no charges against her. At the opening of a metro station in the northeastern city of Salvador, Rousseff said a country cannot resort to impeachment just because it does not like its president, and said Brazil should focus on restoring economic growth and creating jobs.

• Tuesday, December 22nd 2015 - 14:37 UTC

  Rousseff's impeachment support score almost a tie, but 60% prepared to remove speaker Cunha

  

  An estimated 42% of Brazilian Lower House lawmakers (513) are prepared to support the impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff, which is equivalent to 215 votes. But the impeachment motion requires at least 342 votes, two thirds of the total number, which means supporters are still 127 votes short. These numbers belong to a Congress members survey from Datafolha, which was taken between December 7 and 18.

• Friday, December 18th 2015 - 08:40 UTC

  Relief for Rousseff: Justices' ruling delays impeachment procedures

  

  Brazil's Supreme Court gave a relief to embattled President Dilma Rousseff two victories on Thursday in rulings that improve her chances of blocking an impeachment bid by opponents seeking to oust the unpopular leader.

• Thursday, December 17th 2015 - 08:02 UTC

  Brazil's prosecutor asks Justices to strip Lower House speaker of his seat

  

  Brazil's attorney general went to the Supreme Court on Wednesday seeking to strip the leader of the House of Deputies of his seat. House Speaker Eduardo Cunha is the nemesis of embattled and unpopular President Dilma Rousseff — and earlier this month opened the door to begin impeachment proceedings against her.

• Thursday, December 17th 2015 - 03:53 UTC

  Brazil Justices delay until Thursday decision on impeachment procedure against president Rousseff

  

  Brazil's Supreme Court delayed until Thursday a crucial decision related to a procedural question in a case that could lead to President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment. The decision, originally scheduled for Wednesday, was postponed after the court ran out of time. “Tomorrow we'll stay as long as necessary,” said Chief Justice Ricardo Lewandowski.

• Wednesday, December 16th 2015 - 07:32 UTC

  Brazil's strongest business lobby supports President Rousseff's impeachment

  

  The all powerful Sao Paulo Federation of Industries, FIESP, formalized on Tuesday its support to the impeachment process against Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff, thus becoming the first business corporation to publicly express such stance that could end with the removal of the head of state of Latin America's largest economy.

• Wednesday, December 16th 2015 - 07:11 UTC

  Brazilian Lower house speaker closer to losing his job than embattled Rousseff

  

  Brazilian federal police searched the home of lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha on Tuesday as part of a series of anti-graft raids against senior political figures, dealing a blow to the man who opened President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment proceedings.