Home / Policy / In Brazil the fate of the President

In Brazil the fate of the President

В Бразилии решается судьба президента

The upper house of the Brazilian Parliament began to debate, you have to declare the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff. As Reuters reported, if the senators will take a positive decision, the President will be suspended from office for 180 days, and against her will be filed on violation of laws on the budget, in particular to hide the huge deficit.

Directly before the vote, supporters and opponents of this decision will have the opportunity to speak to their colleagues and to convince the undecided of the correctness of his position.

Earlier, the lower house of Parliament has voted to impeach. For this decision voted 367 deputies in the required 342. Special Senate Committee supported this initiative. Now the decision of the people’s representatives to approve or to reject the plenary of the upper chamber.

If more than 50 percent of senators present at the meeting approve the continuation of the impeachment of Rousseff, she will leave his post for 6 months, and the country will be headed by Vice-President Michel Temer. During this period, parliamentarians should consider the matter Rousseff and to determine whether it violated the budget laws. If its fault is proved, Temer will continue to perform the duties of the President until elections are held in 2018.

Check Also

The UN’s ‘unofficial man’

Raphael Lemkin, a stateless Jewish refugee who died penniless, gave mankind’s greatest crime its name. …