Tag: Workers' Party (Brazil)

• 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 - 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.

• 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.

• Saturday, April 23rd 2016 - 10:51 UTC

  Rousseff's bid for international support backfiring

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff from New York accused her political opponents as “coup mongers” and “conspirators” and insisted she would fight to the very end the impeachment process to remove her from office. But her attacks faced a solid defense in Brazil including from members of the Supreme Court who expressed concern the president was questioning Brazil's institutions before the world.

• Thursday, April 21st 2016 - 11:22 UTC

  Rousseff will claim before UN she is victim of a “coup d'état without weapons”

  

  Embattled Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will travel to New York in a bid to rally international support against her impeachment, leaving behind a Cabinet paralyzed by political crisis as another minister defected Wednesday.

• Tuesday, April 19th 2016 - 09:14 UTC

  Temer prepares to take over, but Rousseff followers pledge to fight in the Senate and in the streets

  

  Financial markets in Brazil, and globally, are betting that with the exit of president Dilma Rousseff, a more business friendly government will take over helping Latin America's largest economy to kick-start with vice-president Michel Temer, who apparently is working on a wide ranging 'national coalition' and 'salvation cabinet'.

• Tuesday, April 19th 2016 - 08:39 UTC

  Uruguay's ruling coalition backs Rousseff and condemns the 'new kind of coups' in the continent

  

  Uruguay's ruling coalition, Broad Front, came out strongly in support of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff and condemned the “coup which is being instrumented against the head of state who was supported by 54 million votes in free, open democratic elections”.

• 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.

• 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.

• Wednesday, March 30th 2016 - 06:28 UTC

  Dilma main ally abandons government pushing her closer to impeachment

  

  A anticipated Brazil's largest party, the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, PMDB, announced on Tuesday it was leaving President Dilma Rousseff's governing coalition and pulling its members from her government, a departure that raises the odds she could be impeached in a matter of months.