The Brazilian Senate voted Wednesday to an impeachment trial of President Dilma Rousseff that could lead to its final release shortly after the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games.
After some 15 hours of debate, senators, who voted by a simple majority, expressed on Wednesday at dawn, by 59 votes against 21 for the trial of Dilma Rousseff, suspended since May on charges of makeup public accounts.
the meeting was headed by President of the Supreme Court Ricardo Lewandowski, began Tuesday at 9:45 local time. It was the penultimate stage of a political marathon began several months ago in Brasilia after the vote of a special committee of senators on Thursday, the Senate has pronounced this time in plenary.
the outcome was little doubt
opponents of the president left Brazil only needed for a simple majority of 81 senators, to push out Dilma Rousseff, politics runner of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, principal architect of the award in 2009 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Dilma Rousseff was suspended from office on May 12 by the upper house and is its former vice president has become his rival, Michel Temer, 75, which, since the interim head of state. For both sides, the outcome was little doubt.
“The president is increasingly isolated. A very great isolation, which has worsened in recent weeks and even respect his own party” stated Senator Aloysio Nunes, the social democratic PSDB party. The PSDB is the main opposition party in the Workers Party (PT, left) of Dilma Rousseff and support Michel Temer (PMDB, center right). “I do not doubt for a second that, as of the final judgment, the vote will be in favor of impeachment and will be destitute,” said Aloysio Nunes.
As for allies Dilma Rousseff, Senator Vanessa Grazziotin conceded in advance defeat. “They will get there with some ease,” she regretted.
Institutional crisis
After this new stage, the trial of Dilma Rousseff is expected to open on 25 August, four days after the end of the Olympics, and last five days. It will be held before the Senate, again chaired for the occasion by the President of the Supreme Court Ricardo Lewandowski. The final vote will take place at the two-thirds majority.
In case of permanent removal of the President, this will be the end of over 13 years in power for the Workers Party (PT, left). Michel Temer, 75, will replace Dilma Rousseff to the end of his term in late 2018. Dilma Rousseff would be the second head of the Brazilian state to be removed from power after Fernando Collor in 1992, Fernando Collor resigned three months after the opening of an impeachment for corruption, when the Senate was preparing to recognize the culprit.
the president, re-elected for a second term of four years ending 2014, is accused of having made up the public accounts and to have signed decrees incurring unbudgeted expenses without requesting prior approval of Parliament, a practice to which his predecessors have made extensive use.
Dilma Rousseff formally denies having committed any a “crime of responsibility” and denounces an institutional coup d’state hatched by Mr. Temer and Brazil’s right.
in strictly legal terms, it was the Brazilian parquet seems partly by estimating the budgetary conjuring tricks which he is accused did not constitute crimes.
the prosecution already fragile no longer be based on the signature of some decrees at issue . In fact, it is also and above all a political trial against a weakened president since the collapse of its parliamentary majority at the height of the Brazilian political crisis last spring.
Between new Olympic medals Michael Phelps, the entry into Usain Bolt track and expectations around the Seleçao Neymar in the Olympic tournament, the Brazilians after the last act of this political telenovela that plunged Brazil into its worst crisis institutional decades. The Latin American giant is moving towards its worst recession in a century, amid the scandal giant Petrobras.
(With AFP)
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