Brazil's Lower House of Congress votes to impeach President Dilma Rousseff.
Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff suffered defeat on Sunday as a hostile and corruption-tainted congress voted to impeach her.
In a rowdy session of the lower house presided over by the president’s nemesis, house speaker Eduardo Cunha, 344 of the 513 deputies backed impeachment – beyond the two-thirds majority (342) needed to advance the impeachment to the upper house..
As the outcome became clear, Jose Guimarães, the leader of the Workers party in the lower house, conceded defeat with more than 80 votes still to be counted. “The fight is now in the courts, the street and the senate,” he said.
Watched by tens of millions at home and in the streets, the vote – which was announced deputy by deputy – saw the conservative opposition comfortably secure its motion to remove the elected head of state less than halfway through her mandate. Just 127 deputies had voted against the move at the time the two-thirds majority was reached.
Once the senate agrees to consider the motion, which is likely within weeks, Rousseff will have to step aside for 180 days and the Workers party government, which has ruled Brazil since 2002, will be at least temporarily replaced by a centre-right administration led by Vice President Michel Temer.
At: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/18/dilma-rousseff-congress-impeach-brazilian-president
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A little about the ring leader behind this impeachcoup, Lower House President Eduardo Cunha:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110844561
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I have to post more from your article, as it absolutely needs to be seen as soon as possible:
On a dark night, arguably the lowest point was when Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right deputy from Rio de Janeiro, dedicated his yes vote to Carlos Brilhante Ustra, the colonel who headed the Doi-Codi torture unit during the dictatorship era. Rousseff, a former guerrilla, was among those tortured. Bolsonaro’s move prompted left-wing deputy Jean Wyllys to spit towards him.
Eduardo Bolsonaro, his son and also a deputy, used his time at the microphone to honour the general responsible for the military coup in 1964.
Deputies were called one by one to the microphone by the instigator of the impeachment process, Cunha – an evangelical conservative who is himself accused of perjury and corruption – and one by one they condemned the president.
Yes, voted Paulo Maluf, who is on Interpol’s red list for conspiracy. Yes, voted Nilton Capixiba, who is accused of money laundering. “For the love of God, yes!” declared Silas Camara, who is under investigation for forging documents and misappropriating public funds.
And yes, voted the vast majority of the more than 150 deputies who are implicated in crimes but protected by their status as parliamentarians.
At times the session exposed the farcical side of Brazil’s democracy, such as the Women’s party that has only male deputies, or the Progressive Socialist party that is one of the most right-wing groups in congress.
My God! Alice through the looking glass.
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Jair Bolsonaro, the #### who dedicated his vote to the piece of ####
who ran the torture machine in the military coup which tortured Dilma Rousseff.
Carlos Brilhante Ustra
"Mr. Torture"
Eduardo Bolsonaro, the weasel, Jr.
sranding behind his pathetic #### father.
Eduardo dedicated his time in the spotlight
to hail the ignorant scum who initiated the
Brazilian military dictatorship.
Both father and son shun having chins,
like true fascists.
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Thank you for posting this great article, it helps the bad news go down much better, since it does tell the truth.