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Rousseff's trial to run on during summer Olympics in Brazil
Source: Reuters
World | Fri May 20, 2016 12:35pm EDT
Rousseff's trial to run on during summer Olympics in Brazil
BRASILIA | BY ANTHONY BOADLE AND ALONSO SOTO
Brazil will welcome the world to the summer Olympics with suspended President Dilma Rousseff still on trial for breaking budget rules, government sources said on Friday, despite the interim government's efforts to fast-track the process before the Games.
Heads of state attending the opening ceremony on Aug. 5 in Rio de Janeiro at Rousseff's invitation will instead find themselves shaking hands with Interim President Michel Temer, a close presidential advisor said.
Temer, who took power last week when the Senate voted to put Rousseff on trial on charges of breaking budget laws, had hoped her trial would be over before the Games so there would be no doubt over his leadership of Latin America's largest nation.
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Senate Speaker Renan Calheiros has suspended the chamber's annual recess in July so that the trial is not interrupted.
But Senate staffers say that the soonest it can be concluded will be early- to mid-September because evidence that Rousseff broke budget laws must be provided, witnesses called up, and her defense allowed fair time to make its case.
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Rousseff's trial to run on during summer Olympics in Brazil
BRASILIA | BY ANTHONY BOADLE AND ALONSO SOTO
Brazil will welcome the world to the summer Olympics with suspended President Dilma Rousseff still on trial for breaking budget rules, government sources said on Friday, despite the interim government's efforts to fast-track the process before the Games.
Heads of state attending the opening ceremony on Aug. 5 in Rio de Janeiro at Rousseff's invitation will instead find themselves shaking hands with Interim President Michel Temer, a close presidential advisor said.
Temer, who took power last week when the Senate voted to put Rousseff on trial on charges of breaking budget laws, had hoped her trial would be over before the Games so there would be no doubt over his leadership of Latin America's largest nation.
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Senate Speaker Renan Calheiros has suspended the chamber's annual recess in July so that the trial is not interrupted.
But Senate staffers say that the soonest it can be concluded will be early- to mid-September because evidence that Rousseff broke budget laws must be provided, witnesses called up, and her defense allowed fair time to make its case.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-politics-olympics-idUSKCN0YB26A
