© www.yahoo.comBrazil's Chamber of Deputies votes to impeach President Rousseff.
A Brazilian Senate committee
voted Friday 15-5 in favor of the admission of the impeachment process of President Dilma Rousseff, local media reported.
According to the D24am portal, the
Senate is now expected to vote on the issue on May 11. Should the upper house of the parliament vote in favor of impeaching her, Rousseff will be suspended for up to 180 days.
Brazil's leader has been facing rising discontent over the country's struggling economy and a major corruption scandal in the state-owned energy corporation Petrobras. She headed the company between 2003 and 2010, the period during which most of the corruption reportedly took place.
Rousseff's impeachment process has been characterized by her supporters as
a political witch-hunt and the Brazilian head of state vowed to fight the campaign against her.
Comment: This is no surprise. More than 60% of the Brazilian parliament, and its potentially new president, are under investigation for corruption. They want the investigation to stop and can make this happen by voting Dilma Rousseff out. The US covertly supports these politicians, and the oust of Rousseff, in order to negatively affect the BRICS alliance which it deems a threat. Rousseff has not been charged with any crimes, nor implicated in any corruption scandals. She claims it is a 'coup.' It is.
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Comment: This is no surprise. More than 60% of the Brazilian parliament, and its potentially new president, are under investigation for corruption. They want the investigation to stop and can make this happen by voting Dilma Rousseff out. The US covertly supports these politicians, and the oust of Rousseff, in order to negatively affect the BRICS alliance which it deems a threat. Rousseff has not been charged with any crimes, nor implicated in any corruption scandals. She claims it is a 'coup.' It is.
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