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#Dilma Rousseff loses impeachment vote in Historic Brazil Impeachment Vote - BBC News








Dilma Rousseff loses impeachment vote - BBC News
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Brazil's lower house has voted to start impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff over charges of manipulating government accounts. The motion will now go to the upper house, the Senate, which is expected to suspend Ms Rousseff next month while it carries out a formal trial. Wyre Davies reports.

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xDagger
If only we could do this in the UK right now :)
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Dustin Tacohands
+Geometry Dash 100 mm lunch i hope Turkey sandwich
Travelator
Start with the ones that considered banning Donald Trump from coming to the UK
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Tak Bernama
never underestimate the power of people
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Yrkelo Volrand
+Tak Bernama Never understimate the power of the dollar.
The Piano Haven
Something's bothering me about this whole proceeding... especially since the people leading the impeachment are also accused of being corrupt officials... Just a neutral observer who has friends in Brazil.
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Edu SJC
This is the reputation that this corrupt president has in Brazil: http://sweetlicious.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20150630dilma-1.jpg
john palma
This ia Democracy,looks more like a media circus?
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Ellie James
The opposition uses western-style criminal tactics: they project their deficiencies onto others to distract people from their criminal behavior
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Paulo Medeiros
Green and yellow, not green and gold...
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TINO
+Paulo Medeiros fair mistake though
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warnpassion
When will this happen in the US?
john 321
You know you've been a terrible president when it's a carnival when you're impeached
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Yrkelo Volrand
+john 321 You know you read a Soros-funded troll when he tries to show off a few thousand of chanting idiots as if they were the Brazilian majority.
Yrkelo Volrand
+Edu SJC Is that what your CIA-leaflet told you? Mayvbe you should read more intelligent material? Start with looking up "manufactured revolutions" on Google.
Mark Hackspacher
Brazil deserves a second chance! guys listen to me :give a second chance to Brazil please .
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Recon Smith
now its time for the people to catch and put in jail Dilma Rousseff crones who helped her steal the peoples money.
Cleiton Da Cas
It's hard to believe that there are people who still support Dilma. How is it possible? I simply dont get it.
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Yrkelo Volrand
+Cleiton da Cas It's hard to belive that there are so many whores of CIA in Brazil. Are there any real men left in the country? Dilma seems to be the only man left.
Link G
+Carlos Pinto Thats the truth Cleiton but also if the laws that protect politicians from being charge with the crimes they made. Once you became a public worker like a minister , ( LULA) you cannot be charge accordingly to the crimes you committed. They make the laws to protect then from criminal charges. THIS HAS TO CHANGE.
Herika Kappeler
Brazil is not divided, was only under footed from a 7 percent nacotraficants corrupts, terrorists and malificent politicians. This Reporter shows  a poor view of our flag color(green/yellow, not green/ Gold) and from our real situation. A lot of People in this world underestimate braziliens capacity to fight against left-linketd corrupt. comunist /marxism. They brought  terror in our economy , killed oppositors, they practice money laundry, suppoted with Billions $ terrorists from afganistan & dictators in Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia, Angola, Argentina, Peru, Equador, etc... There is a lot of " no-tell history"in or Justce, Legislative & Executive. 93 percent of brazilians WERE AND ARE against this governmet . We lived 18 years of liers and misfortune , but we believe , we have Faith in our future. THIS IS ONLY THE START OF A NEW POLITICAL CONJUCTURE, finally, Democracy is a process and need time...
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rico dyson
It's almost certain that a rouseff x2 will be installed... Nevertheless, I'm glad that the fat bitch will most likely fall
Smenister
leftists= if you people thrown our corrupt asses out we shall "take to the streets". sounds like the criminal obama and his community organizing,
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13 WhiteKnights
+steven mennor really? where are the pro anti obozo's ( a real criminal) in the US? playing video games or just typing tough here on youtube?
Luiz Claudio
BRITISH BROADCASTING COMMUNISM What part of "communism no longer welcome in Brasil" are you having difficulty to understand? Hey BBC, Dilma and communist PT will be out for the next hundred years. And crying is free. #bolsonaro2018
Luiz Claudio
+Yrkelo Volrand We don't have people working by force in Brazil. Your use of the word "slave" to refer to free people in a free society is an outrage to black brazilian people who suffered under real slavery. Shame on you
Luiz Claudio
+AllanDias435 fodase
Thompson
Bye Dilma!
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Dustin Tacohands
+Thompson not over yet more votes to come... This could get very intresting
Lucas Prado
Soon I hope we get rid of all socialist ideas...This is what left brings: lies, corruption, bankrupcy One side: Green and Yellow the colours of the nation The other one: Red. The colour of the party, of failed ideas.
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13 WhiteKnights
+Lucas Prado well typed Lucas, but there is one problem, one so called socialist replaced by other socialists (more neoliberals using fake labels) will change Brazil into what? Everybody can wave the flag, but what about the constitution?
Moon Runner
Ukraine 2.0 , coming soon.
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Super Velociraptor
+Moon Runner I surely hope not :( If all goes wrong, Uruguay is just a few miles away
Diego Barboza Do Vale
Dilma and Lula is Monster!!!
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Wi-fi Toaster
+Mark Hackspacher yup
AllanDias435
Aprende a escrever antes de vires falar merda.
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Dilma Rousseff Ousted in Historic Brazil Impeachment Vote

Leftist leader’s removal puts Michel Temer in power through 2018 as nation’s deep political and economic problems persist

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Brazil's senate voted 61-20 to oust suspended president Dilma Rousseff, in an impeachment trial over allegations she committed fiscal crimes while handling the federal budget. Photo: Reuters
BRASÍLIA— Dilma Rousseff, a former leftist guerrilla who defied a dictatorship but struggled as Brazil’s president amid a troubled economy and a fractious political climate, was removed from office Wednesday following an impeachment trial she condemned as a coup d’état.
Far from ending Brazil’s monthslong political crisis, Ms. Rousseff’s ouster leaves the country’s new leaders beset with an economy in tatters and an angry, divided electorate.
Brazil’s Senate voted 61-20 to convict Ms. Rousseff on charges that she used illegal bookkeeping maneuvers to hide a growing budget deficit, deemed an impeachable crime in a nation with a history of hyperinflation and fiscal mismanagement. Two-thirds of Brazil’s 81 senators, or 54 votes, were needed to remove Ms. Rousseff from power.
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The outcome was widely expected, though only partly because of the legal evidence marshaled against her. Well before the trial’s final phase opened last week, Ms. Rousseff’s administration had been upended by a brutal recession and a massive corruption scandal at the state oil company that splintered her political base and devastated her popular support. Her departure marks a humiliating end for Brazil’s first female president, and closes 13 years of rule by her leftist Workers’ Party, or PT.
Interim President Michel Temer, who served as vice president and was among the many former allies to abandon Ms. Rousseff, will finish out her second term, which runs through the end of 2018.
Even before Wednesday’s vote, Ms. Rousseff’s political enemies hailed her looming removal as a rebuke to the leftist tide that swept across many South American countries in the early 2000s.
Sen. Ronaldo Caiado of the right-wing Democrats party said Ms. Rousseff’s ouster was a repudiation the Workers’ Party and Ms. Rousseff’s predecessor and mentor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a former metal worker who became president in 2003 and set about expanding social programs to aid Brazil’s poorest citizens. Without them, he said, “society will be able to breathe easily, even knowing the economic difficulties, the level of unemployment.”
Some Brazilians said they were glad to see the traumatic monthslong impeachment process end. Maristela Ferreira dos Santos, a 46-year-old São Paulo office worker, said she always has voted for PT candidates, including Ms. Rousseff.
“But with this decision today, I confess to you that I am relieved,” Ms. dos Santos said. “I do not know if she committed crimes or not, but the direction of the economy cannot continue.”
But others say Mr. Temer’s ascension won’t placate a restless public fed up with the political status quo and disgusted by widespread corruption across all major parties. His Brazilian Democratic Movement Party is among those tainted by the graft scandal at  Petróleo Brasileiro SA, or Petrobras, as the state oil company is known. Mr. Temer was loudly booed at the opening ceremonies of the recent Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
“The ‘throw the bums out’ feeling about politics—that will not be satiated by Dilma’s removal,” said Matthew Taylor, a professor at American University in Washington and an authority on Brazilian politics. “The kind of smoky-room feeling about the way impeachment has proceeded gives a very sort of unsavory taste to the whole impeachment process.”
Indeed, many Brazilians believe Ms. Rousseff’s fall had less to do with official impeachment charges than her mishandling of South America’s largest economy, which moved from 7.6% GDP growth in 2010, when she was first elected, to the worst downturn since the Great Depression during her second term.
Easy credit, energy subsidies and other stimulus measures that Ms. Rousseff’s administration pushed through to weather a global recession helped fan double-digit inflation, and ultimately worsened Brazil’s slide when they were withdrawn. The nation’s economy contracted by 3.8% last year and is expected to shrink another 3.2% this year.
“Impeachment isn’t only about a crime,” said Sen. Cristovam Buarque of the Popular Socialist Party, who voted to oust Ms. Rousseff. “There is also a government without support in Congress and without a path for the economy.”
Brazilian senators celebrate on Wednesday after voting to permanently remove Ms. Rousseff from office. ENLARGE
Brazilian senators celebrate on Wednesday after voting to permanently remove Ms. Rousseff from office. Photo: Associated Press
Ms. Rousseff also was damaged by the Petrobras scandal, a yearslong bid-rigging-and-bribery ring in which politicians and contractors colluded to loot billions from the oil giant. Petrobras wrote off nearly $30 billion in 2014 and 2015, much of that due to bribes and inflated contracts, while a sprawling investigation has toppled dozens of powerful business executives and politicians. At least 50 members of Brazil’s Congress have been implicated in the so-called Operation Car Wash probe.
Among them is Ms. Rousseff’s most implacable foe, former House Speaker Eduardo Cunha, who has been charged with pocketing millions in bribes linked to Petrobras contracts. Mr. Cunha was the legislative gatekeeper who allowed impeachment proceedings against Ms. Rousseff to move forward in December, the same day her Workers’ Party allies declined to support him in a House ethics inquiry. Mr. Cunha has denied wrongdoing.
Testifying before the Senate on Monday in her own defense, Ms. Rousseff said the impeachment process was sheer political payback. She said Mr. Cunha and her other adversaries were angry that she didn’t use her influence to stop the blockbuster investigation that has blown up Brazilian politics.
Although Ms. Rousseff headed Petrobras’s board of directors when much of the illegal activity occurred, the probe has produced no evidence that she personally benefited from the scheme, in contrast to many lawmakers who supported her ouster.
“I paid a high price,” Ms. Rousseff said during her dramatic appearance Monday before the Senate. “Everyone knows that I didn’t enrich myself through public office, that I didn’t steal public money for my own account.”
Ms. Rousseff is the second Brazilian president to be impeached since 1992, and the fifth of eight presidents elected since 1950 who didn’t finish their terms. Two died during their mandates, one resigned before his impeachment trial concluded, and one was overthrown in a coup at the start of the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985.
While some Brazilians believe that removing Ms. Rousseff proves the strength of Brazil’s constitutional system and the independence of its government branches, others think it sends ominous signals about the young democracy’s stability and commitment to ballot-box rule.
“I didn’t vote for Dilma, but I have no reason to be happy today,” said Tiago Moura, a 28-year-old São Paulo web designer. “Dilma leaves, Temer comes, nothing will change.”
Even a few senators who voted against Ms. Rousseff publicly expressed feelings of sadness or misgiving, triggering social media commentary about whether such sentiments were sincere or merely for show.
Wednesday’s vote could spell the end of the unusual political career of the 68-year-old Ms. Rousseff. In the early 1970s, she was interrogated and tortured as a member of an urban rebel faction during the military dictatorship. Handpicked by her popular predecessor, Mr. da Silva, Ms. Rousseff was a party loyalist and technocrat who never held elected office before winning her first presidential term in 2010.
Ms. Rousseff’s personal style, which even some allies have described as imperious and inflexible, also cost her support. She lacked the popular touch, seasoned instincts and deep connections of the extroverted Mr. da Silva, liabilities that made it easier for former allies to abandon her when the political winds shifted.
Ms. Rousseff’s unwavering loyalty to Mr. da Silva has been costly. In August, a Supreme Court justice authorized an investigation of Ms. Rousseff for allegedly obstructing justice when she tried to appoint Mr. da Silva as her chief of staff earlier this year. As a cabinet member, Mr. da Silva would have been shielded from criminal prosecution stemming from allegations of his involvement in the Petrobras scandal, which he has denied. Both he and Ms. Rousseff conceivably could face jail terms.
Ms. Rousseff remained defiant throughout the impeachment process, protesting her innocence and denouncing her accusers.
“I may have made mistakes, but I committed no crimes,” she declared earlier this year. “I will never stop fighting.”
But as the weeks wore on, and a growing number of senators said publicly they would vote against her, her departure became a foregone conclusion. After initially pledging to stage street protests and agitate on Ms. Rousseff’s behalf, many PT supporters fell silent between May and August.
Meanwhile, Brazilians took refuge in the distraction of the Olympic Games. Public opinion surveys indicated that by June the vast majority of Brazilians had tuned out the impeachment proceedings.
Immediately following the impeachment vote, a separate Senate vote failed to reach the two-thirds majority required to ban Ms. Rousseff from holding public office for eight years.
Ms. Rousseff’s triumphant adversaries face many challenges.
A supporter of Ms. Rousseff cries during a demonstration in front of the presidential residency in Brasilia on Wednesday. ENLARGE
A supporter of Ms. Rousseff cries during a demonstration in front of the presidential residency in Brasilia on Wednesday. Photo: Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Since he took over as interim president in May, Mr. Temer, known as an adroit backroom deal maker, has installed a new economic team aimed at undoing many of Ms. Rousseff’s policies. Brazil’s stock market and currency rallied on prospects of her ouster.
But many analysts say Mr. Temer has a very limited window of opportunity to convince financial markets and fellow politicians that he can pass tough austerity measures to set Brazil back on course.
Unemployment now stands at 11.6% while inflation is still hovering near 9% after peaking at 10.7% in January. Trade unions and other groups will resist cuts to entitlements such as pensions. Mr. Temer and his party could absorb additional fallout from the Petrobras investigation.
Opinion polls show Mr. Temer and Ms. Rousseff are equally disliked by the public. Protesters carrying signs reading “Fora Temer” (Temer Out) popped up at the Rio Games.
Regional elected officials, facing municipal elections this fall, will be watching his administration warily.
“Impeachment does not change this scenario much,” said João Augusto de Castro Neves, a Eurasia Group analyst. “It eliminates the risk of Dilma returning, but [Temer] must deal with the real problems of governance.”
Write to Paulo Trevisani at paulo.trevisani@wsj.com and Reed Johnson at Reed.Johnson@wsj.com


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