Rousseff said that if she was spared by the Senate, she would back a referendum on holding early elections and electoral reform to carry out a "deep transformation" of a system that most Brazilians consider rotten.
She also struck a humble note.
"I have listened to the tough criticisms of my government, for the errors committed," she said. "I accept these criticisms with humility and determination so that we can build a new way forward."
But Rousseff, a former leftist guerrilla who was imprisoned and tortured under the military dictatorship in the 1970s, repeated her insistence that forcing her out through impeachment amounts to a coup .... https://www.yahoo.com
