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Brazil opens impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Dec 02, 2015 08:48pm |
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| Author | Jonathan Watts |
| News Date | Thursday, December 3, 2015 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff has begun the fight for her political life after the first impeachment proceedings for more than 20 years were launched against her in Congress.
After months of jockeying, the removal proceedings were pushed forward by her political nemesis – the lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha – as Brazil slipped deeper into a crisis that has hamstrung decision-making even while the economy suffers its worst downturn since the Great Depression.
On Wednesday night, Cunha finally gave the green light to an opposition motion for the country’s first female president to be ejected from office on allegations that she broke fiscal laws by window dressing government accounts ahead of her re-election last year.
Rousseff came out fighting. “I have received with indignation the decision by the head of the lower chamber to [launch] the impeachment process,” she said. “There is no wrongful act committed by me, nor are there any suspicions that I have misused public money.”
Activists from the ruling Workers Party accuse Cunha and his supporters of plotting a coup. |
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