Dilma Rousseff asks Brazil supreme court to delay impeachment process
Source: The Guardian
Brazils embattled president Dilma Rousseff has resorted to the countrys supreme court in a last-ditch attempt to avert likely defeat in a critical impeachment vote in Congress that could lead to her removal from office.
Rousseffs attorney general, Jose Eduardo Cardozo, asked the top court for an injunction to suspend Sundays lower house vote until the full court can rule on what he called procedural irregularities in the impeachment process.
Rousseff, already struggling with Brazils worst economic crisis in decades and a historic corruption scandal, has lost support within her governing coalition. She faces the growing likelihood of defeat in the lower house vote, which would send her impeachment to the senate for trial on charges of breaking budget laws.
If the senate accepts her impeachment, Rousseff would be suspended and replaced by Vice-President Michel Temer as soon as early May pending a trial that could last six months.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/14/dilma-rousseff-brazil-supreme-court-delay-impeachment
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,362 posts)eg: Gore v Bush.
nyabingi
(1,145 posts)is doing cartwheels and somersaults right now - they are finally, after years and years of planning and millions of dollars invested, getting rid of those hated, left-leaning governments in Latin America! YAY!!
The US consistently and without fail support the rule of right-wing oligarchs in foreign countries and too many people who consider themselves "liberal" or even "progressive" cheer right along with our ruling class elites.