Rousseff: Temer is 'Illegitimate'
Rousseff: Temer is 'Illegitimate'
Published 17 December 2016
In an interview, Brazil’s ousted democratically elected President Dilma Rousseff called for new elections "so that this coup is effectively blocked."
In an interview broadcast by Al Jazeera on Friday, the ousted democratically-elected President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, called acting President Michel Temer ‘illegitimate,’ and the process of her impeachment ‘a coup.’
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"The parliament allied itself with segments of the judiciary system and launched a coup, removing a president from office with completely unsubstantiated allegations," she said. She added that the main driver of her impeachment was a desire to end the corruption investigations she had launched.
Rousseff was impeached in August on an obscure allegation that she had inflated projected budget numbers. Since coming to power the government of Michel Temer has been beset by a wave of corruption allegations with seven members of his all-male cabinet resigning, and evidence emerging that Temer himself accepted a US$3 million bribe.
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