Tag: Workers' Party (Brazil)

• Wednesday, June 24th 2015 - 08:29 UTC

  Workers Party is old and out of touch, “an internal revolution is needed”, blasts Lula da Silva

  

  Former President Lula da Silva again blasted Brazil's governing Workers Party, an organization he founded, as old and out of touch. “We have to define whether we want to save our skins and our jobs or if we want to save our project,” Lula da Silva said in Sao Paulo during a seminar on democracy, which he attended along with former Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez.

• Saturday, June 13th 2015 - 07:59 UTC

  Rousseff and Lula da Silva try to convince the party to support austerity measures

  

  Brazil's embattled president Dilma Rousseff with the help of her political mentor. Lula da Silva managed on Thursday night to plea support from the ruling Workers Party, WP, delegates for drastic spending cuts designed to restore confidence in Latin America's largest but battered economy.

• Saturday, May 16th 2015 - 07:58 UTC

  Congress upsets Rousseff: votes to boost pension benefits

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff saw allies and members of her own Workers’ Party challenge her in Congress by voting in favor of boosting pension benefits.

• Monday, April 27th 2015 - 22:40 UTC

  Brazil's ruling party of Lula and Dilma 'stole too much' and its time 'is over'

  

  A close ally of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff and currently part of her government's coalition said “too much stealing” by Lula da Silva's ruling Workers Party (PT) is responsible for the country's political crisis and public opinion disenchantment with politics.

• Monday, April 20th 2015 - 06:42 UTC

  Brazilian leading contractor admits paying 36m dollars in bribes to Petrobras officials

  

  A vice president of construction company Camargo Correa told Brazilian prosecutors that he paid 36 million dollars in bribes to officials of state-controlled oil company Petrobras, the press reported, citing a document prepared by prosecutors.

• Monday, April 13th 2015 - 09:08 UTC

  Hundreds of thousands take to the streets of Brazil to protest against Rousseff

  

  Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets on Sunday, venting anger over government corruption and a souring economy a month after protests gathered more than a million people. With cries of “Dilma out” and “corrupt government,” marchers -- many wearing the yellow and green jerseys of the national football team -- called for President Dilma Rousseff's ouster and an end to impunity for corruption.

• Saturday, April 11th 2015 - 13:05 UTC

  Brazil's anti-corruption drive nets three former lawmakers

  

  Brazilian police arrested on Friday three former congressmen broadening their corruption investigation beyond state-run oil giant Petrobras to state lender Caixa Economica Federal and the federal health ministry.

• Thursday, March 19th 2015 - 07:32 UTC

  Rousseff unveils anti corruption measures, but her approval has fallen to 13%

  

  Brazil's Dilma Rousseff tried to get ahead of the storm of scandal bearing down on her presidency on Wednesday, unveiling a raft of anti-corruption measures she hopes will appease her critics.

• Wednesday, March 18th 2015 - 08:28 UTC

  Rousseff pledges talks with critics and admits government needs to show humility

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff pledged to hold talks with her growing number of critics and said her embattled government needed to show humility, after the Sunday massive protests erupted across the country.

• Tuesday, March 17th 2015 - 07:18 UTC

  More former Petrobras top officials arrested on money laundering investigation

  

  Brazilian police arrested a former Petrobras executive on Monday, in a broad kickback and money laundering investigation that has rattled some of the nation's biggest companies and political parties.