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Brazilian president's impeachment process back on track as speaker backtracks
Source: Reuters
World | Tue May 10, 2016 1:40pm EDT
Brazilian president's impeachment process back on track as speaker backtracks
BRASILIA | BY SILVIO CASCIONE
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's looming suspension from office was back on track on Tuesday after the speaker of the lower house of Congress withdrew his controversial decision to annul an impeachment vote against her.
The Senate will vote on Wednesday whether to put Rousseff on trial for breaking budget laws. If, as is widely expected, a simple majority agrees to hold the trial, she will be automatically suspended from office for up to six months.
Vice President Michel Temer would take over as president, and if Rousseff were convicted and removed definitively, he would stay in the post until elections in 2018.
As the prospect grew of Rousseff's ouster and a potential end to 13 years of rule by her leftist Workers Party (PT), anti-impeachment protesters blocked roads with burning tires in demonstrations in Sao Paulo, the capital Brasilia and other cities, snarling morning traffic.
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Brazilian president's impeachment process back on track as speaker backtracks
BRASILIA | BY SILVIO CASCIONE
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's looming suspension from office was back on track on Tuesday after the speaker of the lower house of Congress withdrew his controversial decision to annul an impeachment vote against her.
The Senate will vote on Wednesday whether to put Rousseff on trial for breaking budget laws. If, as is widely expected, a simple majority agrees to hold the trial, she will be automatically suspended from office for up to six months.
Vice President Michel Temer would take over as president, and if Rousseff were convicted and removed definitively, he would stay in the post until elections in 2018.
As the prospect grew of Rousseff's ouster and a potential end to 13 years of rule by her leftist Workers Party (PT), anti-impeachment protesters blocked roads with burning tires in demonstrations in Sao Paulo, the capital Brasilia and other cities, snarling morning traffic.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-politics-idUSKCN0Y11BP
