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Protest
Highlights Pressure for Brazilian President's Impeachment
Demonstrators handcuff themselves to each other during a protest calling
for the impeachment of Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff at the National
Congress in Brasilia, Oct. 28, 2015.
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Reuters
October 28, 2015 8:27 PM
BRASILIA, BRAZIL—
Opposition activists handcuffed
themselves to a pillar in Brazil's Congress on Wednesday, seeking the
impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff for mismanaging a once-booming economy
and undermining confidence in the country.
The small protest inside
the foyer of the lower chamber highlighted the growing pressure on Brazilian
politicians to begin impeachment proceedings against a president struggling to
survive economic recession and a huge corruption scandal.
"Impeachment can't
wait. Brazil cannot put up with more unemployment, recession, inflation,
currency devaluation and lack of international confidence. We have to remove
this president," said the group's leader, Carla Zambelli.
Opinion polls have shown
that two of every three Brazilians want to see Rousseff impeached, and her political
opponents are stepping up their efforts to unseat the leftist leader one year
into her second term.
The demonstrators called on
Eduardo Cunha, speaker of the lower house of Congress, to take up an
impeachment request made by lawyers from opposition parties. Legal advisers in
Congress said the petition was in order on Tuesday, giving Cunha a green light
to proceed.
Cunha's problems
But the speaker, who is
himself fighting for his political survival after revelations of secret bank
accounts reinforced corruption accusations against him, has said he is in no
hurry to set impeachment proceedings in motion.
The Rousseff government is
counting on Cunha to hold off an impeachment, presidential aides say, because
he needs the votes of the ruling Workers' Party to avoid being ousted by a
Chamber of Deputies ethics committee that will start meeting next Tuesday.
If Cunha accepts an
impeachment request, a special committee must decide whether to go ahead. It
would then need a two-thirds vote in the house to start a trial in the Federal
Senate.
Rousseff aides are
confident that she can muster enough votes from her fractious coalition to
block impeachment for now. But that could change if the worst economic slump in
25 years continues to deepen and more allies abandon the government.
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