Morning Star.png Right-Wing Bid to Oust Dilma Rousseff Goes to Deputies The Morning Star, London, 13 April 2016 “Legislative Coup” plotters took a major step forward on Monday when a congressional committee voted to refer impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff to the Chamber of Deputies. The special congressional commission voted 38-27 to recommend continuation of the impeachment process. Before the vote was taken, opposition deputies festooned their desks with signs reading: “Impeachment now,” while Rousseff supporters chanted: “Coup, coup, coup.” The Chamber of Deputies is set to vote on the proceedings on Sunday. If two-thirds of the chamber vote in favour, the president could be referred to the Senate, which has the power to put her on trial and ultimately drive her from office. Ms Rousseff faces removal from the presidency over allegations that her government broke fiscal rules to mask budget problems by shifting around government accounts before her 2014 re-election. Opposition parties claim that sleight-of-hand accounting decisions allowed her to boost public spending to shore up votes. Ms Rousseff denies any wrongdoing and has not been charged with any crime. Daily paper Estadao reported on Monday that 298 of the 513 deputies support impeachment — short of the 342 needed — with 96 still undecided. The president accuses the opposition of plotting a legislative coup d’état in a bid to replace her with someone closer to the corporate sector. Ms Rousseff denies involvement in the “Car Wash” corruption scandal linked to the Petrobras state oil company and a parliamentary commission cleared her of wrongdoing in October 2015. From: <http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-6a68-Brazil-Right-wing-bid-to-oust-Rou sseff-goes-to-deputies#.Vw4bPfl9600> http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-6a68-Brazil-Right-wing-bid-to-oust-Rous seff-goes-to-deputies#.Vw4bPfl9600 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
