Dilma Rousseff asks Brazil supreme court to delay impeachment process

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: The Guardian

Brazil’s embattled president Dilma Rousseff has resorted to the country’s 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.

Rousseff’s attorney general, Jose Eduardo Cardozo, asked the top court for an injunction to suspend Sunday’s lower house vote until the full court can rule on what he called procedural irregularities in the impeachment process.

Rousseff, already struggling with Brazil’s 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]

1. Good luck with that shit...

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

2. It's worth a shot. Anything can happen.

eg: Gore v Bush.

[nyabingi]

3. The Western media

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.