Wednesday, December 02, 2015

Brazil opens impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff

Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff has begun the fight for her political life after the first impeachment proceedings for more than 20 years were launched against her in Congress.

Rousseff came out fighting.I have received with indignation the decision by the head of the lower chamber to [launch] the impeachment process,” she said. “There is no wrongful act committed by me, nor are there any suspicions that I have misused public money.”

In a televised address to the nation, Rousseff expressed her “outrage” at Cunha’s decision and said there was no evidence of any wrongdoing by her.

“I do not have any accounts abroad,” she said, in a dig at Cunha who has bank accounts in Switzerland and is under investigation, accused of graft.

Activists from the ruling Workers Party accuse Cunha and his supporters of plotting a coup .... http://www.theguardian.com