Tag: Dilma Rousseff

• Wednesday, April 13th 2016 - 05:56 UTC

  Rousseff brands vice president Temer “a traitor” and ''coup plotter'' with no respect for democracy

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff branded her vice president a traitor Tuesday, saying that he was a conspirator in a “coup” that aimed to use impeachment proceedings to bring down a popularly elected government.“If there were any doubts about my denunciation that a coup is underway, there can't be now. The coup plotters have a leader and a deputy leader,” Rousseff said in a blistering attack in Brasilia.

• Wednesday, April 13th 2016 - 05:43 UTC

  Rousseff suffers another blow: the second major party of the coalition steps down

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s suffered another blow to her hopes of surviving impeachment three days ahead of a crucial vote in the full Lower House: the second major party withdrew from the ruling coalition.

• Tuesday, April 12th 2016 - 08:52 UTC

  Temer's national unity message: a blooper or anticipation of pos-Rousseff Brazil

  

  Brazil's vice president called for a government of national unity in a message that was released on Monday apparently by mistake, further complicating the political crisis and impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff.

• Tuesday, April 12th 2016 - 07:15 UTC

  Brazil's Lower House votes on Rousseff's impeachment next Sunday

  

  A commission considering impeachment charges against Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff voted on Monday 38 to 27 in favour of accepting them, which sends the question to the full lower house of Congress for a vote most probably next Sunday. The decision deals a blow to the beleaguered Brazilian president and complicates the country’s political situation.

• Monday, April 11th 2016 - 07:03 UTC

  Brazilians favor early elections if both Rousseff and Temer are impeached

  

  A smaller majority of Brazilians favor the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff compared to last month, while more than half want her immediate successor to be impeached too, according to a survey released on Saturday by polling firm Datafolha.

• Thursday, April 7th 2016 - 10:06 UTC

  Rousseff impeachment vote on Monday but outcome uncertain; Congress remains divided

  

  The rapporteur of a lower-house impeachment committee said in a report that congressional proceedings that could lead to Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's removal from office should continue. The report by lawmaker and committee member Jovair Arantes must now be voted on by all 65 members of that Chamber of Deputies special panel on Monday.

• Wednesday, April 6th 2016 - 08:42 UTC

  Brazil's governance crisis closer to a snap election as soon as October

  

  A Supreme Court judge ordered Brazil's Congress on Tuesday to start impeachment proceedings against Vice President Michel Temer, deepening a political crisis and uncertainty over leadership of Latin America's largest country. Justice Marco Aurelio Mello told the lower house to convene an impeachment committee to consider putting Temer on trial on charges he helped manipulate budget accounting as part of President Dilma Rousseff's administration.

• Tuesday, April 5th 2016 - 06:26 UTC

  Brazil's defense makes its case before the congressional impeachment committee

  

  Attorney General Jose Eduardo Cardozo told the congressional impeachment committee Monday that Rousseff had done nothing wrong and to remove her would be tantamount to a putsch.“As such, impeaching her would be a coup, a violation of the constitution, an affront to the rule of law, without any need to resort to bayonets,” Cardozo told the 65-member committee.

• Tuesday, April 5th 2016 - 05:47 UTC

  Panama Papers: Brazil with 57 names including companies and politicians from all parties

  

  Politicians from seven parties in Brazil were named as clients of a Panama-based firm at the center of a massive data leak over possible tax evasion, O Estado de S.Paulo said on Monday.

• Thursday, March 31st 2016 - 02:04 UTC

  Rousseff cancels Washington trip to avoid Temer from becoming acting president

  

  President Dilma Rousseff decided on Tuesday to cancel her planned trip to the United States next Thursday to participate in the 4th Nuclear Security Summit, to be held in Washington.