Vote to Impeach President Dilma Rousseff in Brazil Is Annulled

[L. Coyote]

Last edited Mon May 9, 2016, 09:43 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: NYT SIMON ROMERO MAY 9

RIO DE JANEIRO — The new speaker of Brazil’s lower house of Congress on Monday annulled the vote to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, creating even greater tumult amid the power struggle gripping Latin America’s largest country.

Waldir Maranhão, an obscure lawmaker who took the helm of the Chamber of Deputies last week after the Supreme Court ordered his predecessor to step down to face a graft trial, stunned the country with the move just two days before the Senate is preparing to vote on whether to remove Ms. Rousseff from office and put her on trial.

Ms. Rousseff is facing accusations that she borrowed money from state banks to plug budget holes, masking the depths of Brazil’s economic troubles in order to bolster her re-election prospects. Until Mr. Maranhão’s surprise decision on Monday, few expected her to survive the vote in the Senate this week on her suspension.

Now politicians are scrambling to determine how the decision might affect the president’s fate, with her opponents rushing to challenge Mr. Maranhão’s ruling before the Supreme Court.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/10/world/americas/brazil-dilma-rousseff.html

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[center]Good to see not everyone is corrupt in Brazil!

[bemildred]

1. Thank you!

[Jack Rabbit]

2. Power to the people

Don't you love it when the People fight back against crooked politicians?

[Judi Lynn]

3. You are the best. This is news people need to see, hear, especially after reading corporate "news"

which implied her impeachment has been a foregone conclusion.

From the NY Times' Simon Romero, yet. Bet it broke his heart to write this.

Thank you!

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Waldir Maranhão



The sleazoid he replaced, a man in really hot water who hoped to take Dilma down before he went down,
Speaker Eduardo Cunha.

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[waddirum]

8. sometimes a picture is worth much more than a thousand words

Thank you for posting those.

[Eugene]

4. Brazil Senate moves forward with impeachment process

Source: Reuters

World | Mon May 9, 2016 4:51pm EDT

Brazil Senate moves forward with impeachment process

Brazil's Senate pressed ahead with the impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff on Monday, despite a decision by the lower house's interim speaker to annul it earlier in the day.

The head of the Senate, Renan Calheiros, said he had rejected the lower house interim speaker's decision and that a vote in the upper house on whether to put Rousseff on trial would continue as scheduled.

The Senate is expected to vote this week on whether it will try Rousseff for breaking budgetary laws. If it decides in favor of doing so, Rousseff will immediately be suspended for up to six months as the trial proceeds.

(Reporting by Anthony Boadle and Brad Brooks; Editing by Daniel Flynn)

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-politics-idUSKCN0Y01S3

[Judi Lynn]

5. Effort to impeach Brazil's president thrown into chaos

Effort to impeach Brazil's president thrown into chaos

Jenny Barchfield and Mauricio Savarese, Associated Press

Updated 5:13 pm, Monday, May 9, 2016

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The impeachment process against Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was thrown into chaos Monday as the acting speaker of the lower Chamber of Deputies annulled a majority vote by his own colleagues that favored ousting the embattled leader.

The surprise move by acting Speaker Waldir Maranhao touched off a firestorm of debate over the move's legality and its possible implications, a standoff that will likely have to be solved by the country's supreme court.

The Senate had been expected to decide Wednesday whether to accept the impeachment case against Rousseff and put her on trial for allegedly breaking fiscal rules in her management of the national budget. If a simple majority of senators decides in favor, Rousseff will be suspended and Vice President Michel Temer will take over until a trial is conducted.

Senate Head Renan Calheiros told colleagues he intended to ignore Maranhao's decision and move forward with the proceedings as scheduled. He slammed the speaker's action as "toying with democracy."

More:
http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/House-Speaker-annuls-presidential-impeachment-vote-7422743.php

[McKim]

6. Dilma and the PT are the Legally Elected Govt. of Brazil

This is good news. I hope they don't succeed putting in the US puppet presumptive.

[L. Coyote]

7. Waldir Maranhão annulled the impeachment and called for a new vote in the House.

Interim Lower House Speaker Decides to Annul Rousseff's Impeachment Vote

The acting speaker of Brazil's lower house of Congress, Waldir Maranhão (PP-MA), annulled the impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff this Monday (9) and called for a new vote in the House.

Maranhao said that there were procedural flaws in the April 15 and 17 vote in the lower house that accepted the impeachment proceedings against Rousseff...... the parliamentary group was swayed, which compromises the lawmakers' voting freedom.

..... Formerly the Vice-President of the Lower House, Maranhão assumed leadership of the House last week after the Supreme Court decided to suspend Eduardo Cunha's (PMDB-RJ) mandate as Lower House Speaker, who was a leading force behind the impeachment in the legislature.

In the appeal, the AGU pointed at illegalities such as vote swaying by party leaders .................