Rousseff to Face Impeachment in Brazil Beset by Recession

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-02/rousseff-to-face-impeachment-in-brazil-congress-speaker-says

Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff will face impeachment proceedings in Congress, marking a deepening of the political crisis that is dragging Latin America’s largest economy further into recession.

Lower house President Eduardo Cunha told reporters in Brasilia on Wednesday he has accepted one of 34 requests to impeach the president on charges that range from illegally financing her re-election to doctoring fiscal accounts this year and last. Cunha said he "profoundly regrets" what’s happening. "May our country overcome this process."

The impeachment hearings could take months, involving several votes in Congress that ultimately may result in the president’s ouster. Rousseff would challenge any impeachment proceedings in the Supreme Court, according to a government official with direct knowledge of her defense strategy. The presidential press office said the government will make a statement shortly.

The decision is the culmination of a week of devastating news in Brazil, including a selloff following the arrest of billionaire banker Andre Esteves and a worse-than-expected decline in gross domestic product.

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1. She won't.

This will never pass.

And the impeachment process was not "beset by recession".

It was beset by a corrupted congressman with five million dollars in bribary in a Swiss bank as retaliation for the Worker's Party starting a process to impeach him.

He doesn't have the needed amount of votes to start the process. Let alone finish it.

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2. Exactly. It's the same shameless hypocrisy GOP extremists have been using here for years.

And in a number of other countries as well, of course - except that unlike in some other places, most people in Brazil no doubt see this "soft coup" attempt for what it is.

President Rousseff may have low approval ratings at the moment; but Cunha and his fellow right-wingers are mistaken if they think that voters gave them a blank check for partisan witch hunts.

Some on DU have been misinformed by media red-baiting into thinking that all populist administrations in Latin America are Chavistas (!). They are sorely mistaken on that point too.