Tag: Dilma Rousseff

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.
Tuesday, May 3rd 2016 - 06:54 UTC
Brazil recession deepens, but prospects for 2017 seem much brighter

Brazil’s recession is expected to deepen this year as economists brace for an even steeper contraction than in 2015. Economists have downgraded their 2016 outlook for Latin America’s largest economy for the 15th week in a row, according to the weekly Focus survey of about 100 economists by the Brazilian central bank.
Monday, May 2nd 2016 - 05:42 UTC
Rousseff pledges “to fight to the end” and some groups anticipate “civil disobedience”

Brazil's populist president Dilma Rousseff vowed at a protest on Sunday, International Labour Day, that she would go down fighting ahead of what could be her final full week in power before impeachment.
Friday, April 29th 2016 - 07:10 UTC
“The maker of presidents” (including Lula, Dilma and Chavez) formally charged with corruption

Brazilian prosecutors charged political strategist Joao Santana, the architect of President Dilma Rousseff’s 2010 and 2014 election victories, and 16 others with corruption on Thursday as part of a massive graft investigation.
Friday, April 29th 2016 - 05:44 UTC
Mercosur unmoved by Rousseff''s invocation of the “democratic clause”

“We respect the Brazilian constitutional process” and thus Argentina does not have plans to follow on president Dilma Rousseff announcement that she will appeal to Mercosur to implement the “democratic clause” if the impeachment process to remove the head of state from office advances in the country's Senate.
Thursday, April 28th 2016 - 07:59 UTC
Lula's party would call for fresh elections if Dilma is removed from office

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff concedes that even if the full Senate finally votes against her impeachment, she may be obliged to support the call for new presidential elections this year, according to Folha, one of Sao Paulo's most influential dailies.
Wednesday, April 27th 2016 - 07:32 UTC
Only five of the Brazilian Senate 21-member committee declared support for Rousseff

Brazil’s Senate chose the 21 members of a commission that will recommend whether or not to move forward with impeachment proceedings against embattled President Dilma Rousseff. As was expected, the Senate picked a committee stacked with supporters of impeachment that will report back on whether to put Rousseff on trial. Only five of the committee’s 21 members have declared their support for the populist president.
Wednesday, April 27th 2016 - 07:23 UTC
Brazilians want fresh elections; only 8% support a government headed by Temer

A poll released on Monday showed Brazilians overwhelmingly favored the hypothetical resignation of both President Dilma Rousseff and her vice-president Michel Temer, followed by new presidential elections. Just over 60% of respondents said that scenario would be the best way out of the crisis, although no such solution is stipulated under Brazil’s Constitution.
Tuesday, April 26th 2016 - 09:11 UTC
Brazil's main opposition party divided on support to a possible Temer government

Brazil's largest opposition party is divided over how strongly to back a new interim government if it succeeds in having President Dilma Rousseff stripped of office, as it eyes a run at the presidency in 2018, senior members said on Monday.
Tuesday, April 26th 2016 - 09:02 UTC
Lula warns that if Rousseff's impeachment advances, PT will resist in the streets

Former President Lula da Silva attacked on Monday the “gang” of lawmakers who “have implanted an agenda of chaos” in Brazil by pushing to impeach and remove incumbent head of state Dilma Rousseff. Lula participated in Sao Paulo in a seminar with representatives of leftist parties, including Italy's former Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema.