Impeachment

Protests Erupt Over Coup Impeachment In Brazil

May 11, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Brazil, Impeachment, Protests

By Staff of Tele Sur - Attorney General Eduardo Cardozo, the government's top lawyer, asked the Supreme Court to annul impeachment proceedings, his office said. Speaker Eduardo Maranhao on Monday had annulled a vote by the lower house due to "procedural flaws" in the April 17 vote that left the decision in the Senate’s hands. In a statement to the Senate, Maranhao did not cite any reason for backtracking the lower house's decision.

Brazil: Impeachment Of Dilma Opens Up New Period Of Class Struggle

April 21, 2016 Fred Weston, www.marxist.com Resist! Brazil, Class Struggle, Impeachment

By Fred Weston for In Defense of Marxism - Such were the passions on both sides that the authorities had to build a temporary two metre-high, one kilometer-long metal fence to keep apart the thousands of pro- and anti-impeachment demonstrators outside the Congress building in Brasilia. Parliament voted by a big majority, 367 for impeachment and 137 against, more than the two-thirds required to start proceedings against Dilma. She is accused of manipulating government accounts.

Politicians Seeking To Impeach Dilma, Accused Of Greater Corruption

March 30, 2016 Vincent Bevins, www.latimes.com Educate! Brazil, Impeachment, President

By Vincent Bevins for The Los Angeles Times - Efforts to impeach Brazil's president accelerated this month as the country fell into full-blown crisis. But the congressional commission that will help decide Dilma Rousseff's fate has its own legal problems. Of 65 members on the impeachment commission, 37 face charges of corruption or other serious crimes, according to data prepared for the Los Angeles Times by the local organization Transparencia Brasil. The commission does not represent just the congressional faction that wants Rousseff impeached, but contains members of both the ruling coalition and the opposition.

Impeachment Likelihood In Brazil Grows As Dilma Coalition Falls Apart

March 30, 2016 Anthony Boadle, www.reuters.com Educate! Brazil, Impeachment

By Anthony Boadle for Reuters - Brazil's largest party announced on Tuesday it was leaving President Dilma Rousseff's governing coalition and pulling its members from her government, a departure that sharply raises the odds she could be impeached in a matter of months. The Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) took just a few minutes to decide unanimously in a packed leadership meeting that its six ministers in Rousseff's Cabinet and all other party members with government appointments must resign immediately.

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