No legal grounds for impeachment: Dilma Rousseff
Al Jazeera :
Brazil’s suspended president discusses her impeachment trial, corruption allegations, and why she is optimistic.
Dilma Rousseff, the former leftist guerrilla who became the first woman president of Latin America’s largest country, is now fighting for her political survival.
Brazil’s immensely popular former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, chose his chief of staff to carry on with his legacy of economic growth with social justice.
But it didn’t last. By the time Rousseff began her second term in 2015, Brazil was in turmoil.
Now Rousseff has been suspended to face an impeachment trial – abandoned by her allies and millions of Brazilians who accuse her of driving the nation’s once healthy economy into the ground and of turning a blind eye to corruption within her own left-wing party.
It’s the material political soap operas are made of: almost daily corruption scandals are splattering every political party, most recently, that of interim President Michel Temer.
This week, more leaked phone conversations revealed that two of his top ministers, including the man in charge of combating corruption, were apparently trying to derail ongoing investigations into a multi-billion-dollar bribery scheme.
Brazil’s suspended president discusses her impeachment trial, corruption allegations, and why she is optimistic.
Dilma Rousseff, the former leftist guerrilla who became the first woman president of Latin America’s largest country, is now fighting for her political survival.
Brazil’s immensely popular former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, chose his chief of staff to carry on with his legacy of economic growth with social justice.
But it didn’t last. By the time Rousseff began her second term in 2015, Brazil was in turmoil.
Now Rousseff has been suspended to face an impeachment trial – abandoned by her allies and millions of Brazilians who accuse her of driving the nation’s once healthy economy into the ground and of turning a blind eye to corruption within her own left-wing party.
It’s the material political soap operas are made of: almost daily corruption scandals are splattering every political party, most recently, that of interim President Michel Temer.
This week, more leaked phone conversations revealed that two of his top ministers, including the man in charge of combating corruption, were apparently trying to derail ongoing investigations into a multi-billion-dollar bribery scheme.
