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Montevideo, December 26th 2024 - 03:26 UTC

Tag: Lula da Silva

  • Thursday, April 14th 2016 - 05:27 UTC

    Temer preparing to take over…”I will be ready” as Rousseff's coalition melts

    Politicians have begun to flock to the residence of the man who would replace Rousseff if she is convicted, Vice President Michel Temer to declare their support

    President Dilma Rousseff pledged on Wednesday to form a government of national unity if she survives an impeachment vote in Congress this weekend, but the odds of became steeper as allies continued to desert her. In effect a stream of defections from Rousseff's coalition makes it increasingly likely she will lose Sunday's ballot in the Lower House of Congress.

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

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

    The special committee voted 38 to 27 in favour of accepting impeachment charges against president Dilma Rousseff

    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

    According to Datafolha, 61% of Brazilians want Rousseff to be impeached by Congress, compared to 68% in March, while 58% want Temer to have the same fate.

    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.

  • Tuesday, April 5th 2016 - 06:26 UTC

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

    “Impeaching Rousseff 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 Congress

    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.

  • Saturday, March 19th 2016 - 06:40 UTC

    Lula takes to the streets claiming there's a coup, but he is no match to the over three million of Sunday

    Waving the red flags of the ruling PT thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Sao Paulo, greeting Lula with thunderous cheers

    Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's supporters took to the streets on Friday to fight back at attempts to oust her, as a flurry of court battles raged over her controversial cabinet appointment of predecessor Lula da Silva. Waving the red flags of the ruling Workers' Party, (PT) tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in the country's largest city, Sao Paulo, greeting Lula with thunderous cheers when he was hoisted onto a parked truck to address the crowd.

  • Friday, March 18th 2016 - 03:12 UTC

    Brazilian markets surge on prospects Rousseff will be removed

    The Bovespa index of leading shares closed at 50,913 points after lawmakers re launched impeachment proceedings against Rousseff

    Brazilian share prices surged on Thursday to close 6.6% higher, a seven-year record, after fresh setbacks to populist President Dilma Rousseff raised the prospect of her being driven from power.

  • Thursday, March 17th 2016 - 06:38 UTC

    “When a rich man steals they name him minister”, Lula da Silva quote in 1998

    “When a poor man steals, he ends in jail; when a rich man steals he is named minister”, the phrase belongs to Lula da Silva, when he was leading the opposition.

    “When a poor man steals, he ends in jail; when a rich man steals he is named minister”, the phrase belongs to Lula da Silva back in 1998 when he was leading the opposition, and it is now being repeated in social networks. In effect, on Wednesday Lula was named chief of staff by president Dilma Rousseff, who also phoned him to tell him she would be sending him the official decree on his nomination, so that he make use of it “if necessary”.

  • Thursday, March 17th 2016 - 06:13 UTC

    Protests erupt in Brazil as Rousseff confirms Lula da Silva as chief of staff

    Lula has immunity from all but the Supreme Court after his nomination as Rousseff's chief of staff was published in a special edition of the Official Gazette.

    Protests erupted in Brazilian cities on Wednesday after President Dilma Rousseff named her predecessor Lula da Silva chief of staff and a taped telephone conversation fed opposition claims the appointment was meant to shield Lula from prosecution.

  • Wednesday, March 16th 2016 - 06:36 UTC

    Lula da Silva on the run ready o accept position in cabinet; markets and Real collapse on the news

    ”Rumors have been around for the last two weeks, but gained strength when Lula traveled to Brasilia to meet with (president Dilma) Rousseff” according to O Globo.

    Brazil's ex-president Lula da Silva will accept a position in his successor's cabinet, according to a leading national newspaper, in order to protect himself from prosecution in a corruption case involving the state-run oil company, Petrobras. Rio-based O Globo newspaper reported on Tuesday that Lula had told several close advisers that he would rejoin the cabinet, citing no sources. Brazilian markets and currency collapsed on the news.

  • Thursday, March 10th 2016 - 06:47 UTC

    Prosecutors ask for Lula da Silva to be placed under formal investigation

    Brazilian media reported that prosecutors want Lula probed for alleged money laundering and hiding assets in connection with a posh seaside home.

    Prosecutors in Brazil asked Wednesday that powerful ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who was questioned this week in a huge corruption probe, be placed under formal investigation. The press service of the Sao Paulo state prosecutors' office said precise details of the request were not yet known and that a news conference would be held Thursday.