Tag: Dilma Roussef impeachment

• Friday, June 3rd 2016 - 09:13 UTC

  Temer's administration confident of congressional support for its economic plans

  

  President Michel Temer's will press ahead with ambitious plans to balance the budget, reform pensions and draw private money into the energy sector despite the loss of two ministers to a corruption scandal, his chief of staff said on Thursday.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2016 - 06:28 UTC

  Brazilians disenchanted with their elected officials and a majority believes “nothing will change”

  

  Brazilians have become increasingly disappointed with politics and their elected politicians, according to an Ibope Intelligence opinion poll collecting reactions to the current political situations, which has a suspended president, Dilma Rousseff; an interim leader Michel Temer, and a divided Congress.

• Tuesday, May 31st 2016 - 07:00 UTC

  Second cabinet knock out in Brazil: this time the Transparency minister

  

  Brazilian interim president Michel Temer's government has suffered a new blow when his anti-corruption minster resigned on Monday after leaked recordings showed him trying to squash a massive corruption scandal that has ensnarled the country's political and business elite.

• Monday, May 30th 2016 - 09:36 UTC

  Suspended Rousseff claims tapes reveal her impeachment is meant to stop the Petrobras corruption probe

  

  Suspended President Dilma Rousseff said in an interview published Sunday that leaked audio recordings of men backing her impeachment show the effort to oust her is meant to stop a wide-ranging corruption probe that has implicated numerous leading Brazilian politicians and businessmen.

• Monday, May 30th 2016 - 09:25 UTC

  Lula regrets having elected Dilma as his successor, according to taped conversation

  

  Ex Brazilian president Lula da Silva regrets having handpicked suspended president Dilma Rousseff as his political heiress, according to a taped conversation leaked to the media. In the audio between former president Jose Sarney and Sergio Machado, a former head of Transpetro, a state-run natural gas company, who is believed to have entered a plea bargain with the prosecution, the two men comment on Lula's confession.

• 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.

• Wednesday, May 25th 2016 - 06:18 UTC

  Venezuela next Mercosur chair, but Uruguay will continue leading negotiations with EU

  

  Venezuela, in the midst of a most serious domestic political and economic situation, and with less foreign allies is scheduled to take the chair of Mercosur as of next June for the following six months. However it has been agreed that Uruguay will continue leading Mercosur negotiations with the European Union for a much delayed wide ranging cooperation and trade agreement.

• Tuesday, May 24th 2016 - 05:34 UTC

  Temer loses top minister to Petrobras scandal: recordings expose plans to obstruct investigation

  

  Brazil's Planning Minister Romero Juca said on Monday he will temporarily step down after a newspaper published recordings of him discussing plans to obstruct the country's biggest-ever corruption investigation, which includes him among its targets.

• Monday, May 23rd 2016 - 11:13 UTC

  Limited street protests against Temer's government in Sao Paulo and Rio

  

  Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Brazil's two biggest cities Sunday to protest acting President Michel Temer, trying to keep up pressure on his interim administration only 10 days after he was sworn in. A march in Sao Paulo was heading toward Temer's residence, but police blocked roads near the house, and the interim president left for the capital of Brasilia hours earlier.

• Thursday, May 19th 2016 - 12:07 UTC

  Brazilian Justice gives Rousseff ten days to reply the claims of “a coup”

  

  Brazils Supreme Tribunal (STF) Justice Rosa Weber has given suspended president Dilma Rousseff ten days to explain her repeated statements that the impeachment process started against her is a “coup”. Rousseff is not obliged to respond. The STF decision follows a request from a group of lawmakers via the House's prosecution office.