Tag: Dilma Roussef impeachment

• Friday, June 24th 2016 - 12:02 UTC

  Ex-top minister of Lula and Rousseff arrested; Senator Gleisi Hoffmann house raided

  

  A top ex-minister of Brazil's suspended president Dilma Rousseff became the latest official to get arrested in a sprawling corruption probe on Thursday, authorities said. Police also searched the headquarters of Rousseff's Workers Party in Sao Paulo in one of a series of raids across five states in the country.

• Wednesday, June 22nd 2016 - 05:53 UTC

  Speaker of Brazil's Lower House will feel “proud” if Rousseff is impeached

  

  The speaker of Brazil's lower house of Congress, currently sidelined pending trial on corruption charges, said Tuesday that he will feel “proud” if the case against suspended President Dilma Rousseff ends with her impeachment.

• Friday, June 17th 2016 - 07:04 UTC

  A furious Temer describes corruption implications as “irresponsible, lying and criminal”

  

  Brazilian interim president Michel Temer, described as “irresponsible, lying and criminal” a statement implicating him in the corruption at state oil company Petrobras.

• Thursday, June 16th 2016 - 11:54 UTC

  Brazilian suspended lawmaker warns that if arrested he will take other politicians down with him

  

  Brazil's congressional ethics committee voted to strip suspended Speaker Eduardo Cunha of his seat for allegedly lying about undeclared Swiss bank accounts, the latest in a series of political earthquakes to rock Latin America's largest country.

• Wednesday, June 15th 2016 - 11:46 UTC

  Rio Games receive the blessing from Olympic Committee president

  

  International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said on Tuesday he was “happy” with interim Brazilian president Michel Temer's commitment to the Rio Games, following his first meeting with the host country's new leader.

• Monday, June 13th 2016 - 07:44 UTC

  Brazil's fiscal accounts “worse than ever imagined” confesses Temer

  

  Brazil's fiscal accounts were in worse shape than initially thought after the suspension of Dilma Rousseff, underscoring the challenge facing the country's new economic team, acting President Michel Temer said.

• Monday, June 13th 2016 - 06:54 UTC

  Rousseff called as a defense witness over the Petrobras corruption scandal

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, suspended from office pending her impeachment trial, has been called as a defense witness for a key figure in the Petrobras corruption scandal, court documents show. The case involves Marcelo Odebrecht, the former head of a family-owned construction company who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in the mammoth corruption scandal centered on the state oil giant.

• Saturday, June 11th 2016 - 07:38 UTC

  Rousseff calls for a referendum on holding early elections

  

  Brazil's suspended president Dilma Rousseff said she would call a referendum on holding early elections if she is reinstated as president, an offer analysts saw as a bid to sway undecided senators to help clear her in an impeachment trial.

• Thursday, June 9th 2016 - 09:27 UTC

  Brazilians want fresh elections; 62% believe Rousseff's impeachment was the right decision

  

  The government of Interim President Michel Temer has a low approval rating among Brazilians and a majority of the country wants new elections to be held this year, according to a poll released on Wednesday.

• Saturday, June 4th 2016 - 08:34 UTC

  Lula da Silva blasts media for trying to hide the “coup” against Rousseff

  

  Former Brazilian president Lula da Silva accused the media conglomerate Globo, the country’s largest, of censoring suspended president, Dilma Rousseff, adding that the interim government of Michel Temer is seeking to take away social rights and is “delivering” the nation’s oil for exploitation by foreign interests.