Brazilian congress votes to impeach president Dilma Rousseff
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Source: The Guardian
Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff suffered defeat on Sunday as a hostile and corruption-tainted congress voted to impeach her.
In a rowdy session of the lower house presided over by the president’s nemesis, house speaker Eduardo Cunha, 344 of the 513 deputies backed impeachment – beyond the two-thirds majority (342) needed to advance the impeachment to the upper house..
As the outcome became clear, Jose Guimarães, the leader of the Workers party in the lower house, conceded defeat with more than 80 votes still to be counted. “The fight is now in the courts, the street and the senate,” he said.
Watched by tens of millions at home and in the streets, the vote – which was announced deputy by deputy – saw the conservative opposition comfortably secure its motion to remove the elected head of state less than halfway through her mandate. Just 127 deputies had voted against the move at the time the two-thirds majority was reached.
Once the senate agrees to consider the motion, which is likely within weeks, Rousseff will have to step aside for 180 days and the Workers party government, which has ruled Brazil since 2002, will be at least temporarily replaced by a centre-right administration led by Vice President Michel Temer.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/18/dilma-rousseff-congress-impeach-brazilian-president
A little about the ring leader behind this impeachcoup, Lower House President Eduardo Cunha:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110844561
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