Tag: Dilma Roussef impeachment

• Thursday, May 19th 2016 - 11:57 UTC

  Meirelles unveils a dark picture of Brazil's finances and insists of pensions reform

  

  Brazil's fiscal deficit prior to debt interest payments could reach 150 billion Reais (US$42.10 billion) this year as revenues collapse amid a crippling recession economy, Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles warned on Wednesday. The deficit includes eventual losses from state electricity holding Eletrobras.

• Thursday, May 19th 2016 - 07:49 UTC

  Rousseff's party preparing a large national rally “Out with Temer”, for June first

  

  Brazils' Worker's Party, PT, to which suspended President Dilma Rousseff belongs, insisted that the country is experiencing a “coup” and announced a campaign to “remove” acting President Michel Temer. PT president Rui Falcao said after a meeting of the national party directorate in Brasilia, that party members will continue “fighting the coup” and will undertake actions to raise society's awareness of the need to “get rid of Temer.”

• Monday, May 16th 2016 - 06:01 UTC

  Brazil's Jewish community supports Temer; hopeful of normalization of relations with Israel

  

  The elevation of a centrist vice president, Michel Temer, as Brazil’s president amid the impeachment process of Dilma Rousseff is expected to result in a less strained relationship between Brazil and Israel, as well as its Jewish community, Jewish leaders in Sao Paulo said.

• Monday, May 16th 2016 - 05:46 UTC

  Brazil warns neighbors about “propagating falsehoods over the internal political process”

  

  Brazil's interim government dismissed criticism by populist countries in Latin America, including Venezuela, Cuba and Bolivia, over the impeachment process of Dilma Rousseff, who was suspended as president by the senate.

• Saturday, May 14th 2016 - 09:09 UTC

  Temer's team confident it has the political support to implement tough measures

  

  Brazil's interim government said on Friday it has the political support for tough measures needed to return the economy to growth and can secure a permanent mandate once populist President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment trial is over. Presidential Chief of Staff Eliseu Padilha said the incoming government understood it was only provisional for now and had ordered portraits of Rousseff to be left hanging in federal buildings.

• Friday, May 13th 2016 - 11:30 UTC

  Argentina supports the institutional situation in Brazil, but fears effects of the neighbor's recession

  

  The Argentine government publicly showed its support for the new status quo in Brazil, minutes after the country’s vice-president, Michel Temer, temporarily took power after President Dilma Rousseff was suspended from office after the Senate voted to open impeachment proceedings against her early yesterday morning.

• Friday, May 13th 2016 - 07:13 UTC

  Brazil's third Sports minister since March with only 12 weeks to Rio Olympic Games

  

  Brazil shuffled its sports leadership team again on Thursday, just 85 days before the games arrive in Rio de Janeiro. The announcement came after vice president Michel Temer took over as the new acting president amid deep political turmoil. The previous president Dilma Rousseff was forced to temporarily resign following a Congressional vote to begin an impeachment trial against her for breaking budgetary laws.

• Friday, May 13th 2016 - 06:58 UTC

  Temer cabinet: inflation hawk in Finance and an anti-populist in foreign affairs

  

  Brazilian acting President Michel Temer on Thursday chose leading figures from nine centrist and conservative parties for his Cabinet, which for the first time in decades has no female ministers.

• Friday, May 13th 2016 - 06:46 UTC

  Temer calls on Brazil to rally behind the “national salvation” government

  

  Brazil's acting President Michel Temer called on his country to rally behind his government of “national salvation” hours after the Senate voted to suspend and put on trial his populist predecessor, Dilma Rousseff, for breaking budget laws.

• Friday, May 13th 2016 - 06:13 UTC

  US confident Brazil will address political challenges according to constitutional principles

  

  United States continues to follow political development in Brazil and is confident that the country will work through its political challenges democratically in accordance with its constitutional principles, said the State Department spokesperson on Thursday in reply to a question on current events in Brasilia.