Morning Star.png Rousseff Deposed by Brazilian Senate The Morning Star, London, 1 September 2016 Brazil's senate voted for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff yesterday following a marathon all-night debate. Senators and journalists crammed into the chamber for the vote, delayed as Ms Rousseff's supporters insisted that the two issues at hand - her removal from office and a ban from public office - be considered separately. Senators voted by a majority of 61 to 20 to remove Rousseff from office. Workers' Party Senator Humberto Costa argued that "The punishment is disproportional in relation to the crime she is accused of." The trial's main charge of making illegal loans was torn apart by the senate's own expert witness, while Ms Rousseff has admitted shoring up social spending using measures employed by many of her predecessors - which are not illegal. Following Ms Rousseff's 14-hour testimony on Monday, the Senate debated into the small hours of Wednesday before adjourning ahead of the lunchtime vote. Senator Janaina Paschoal, who led the prosecution in Ms Rousseff's show trial, wept crocodile tears on Tuesday night as she begged forgiveness for causing the president "suffering," but insisted it was justified. "The Brazilian people must be aware that nothing illegal and illegitimate is being done here," she claimed in response to Ms Rousseff's charge that the process amounted to a legislative coup. Her defence lawyer Jose Eduardo Cardozo retorted that the impeachment was part of turncoat Vice-President Michel Temer's bid to halt corruption probes that have implicated many in his own PMDB party. "I will not associate my name to this infamy," read a sign held up by one senator. [email protected] From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-3b1d-Rousseff-deposed-by-Brazilian-sena te#.V8e4Bfl9600 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 14051 (20160901) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- 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]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/000c01d20418%2462c01f50%2428405df0%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
