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| Brazil’s Rousseff rallies anti-impeachment crowd |
| 2016-05-03 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Brazil’s embattled leftist President Dilma Rousseff vowed at a protest Sunday to go down fighting ahead of what could be her final full week in power before impeachment. Thousands of people attended May Day rallies organized by labor unions in cities across Latin America’s biggest country, with Rousseff telling a crowd in the financial powerhouse Sao Paulo that she would "fight to the end." The traditional Labor Day celebrations were dominated by anger at the impeachment drive, described by Rousseff as a coup based on trumped up charges aimed at returning Brazil’s center-right to power. Rousseff, whose Workers’ Party has held the presidency since 2003, told the Sao Paulo rally that opponents are "ripping up the constitution" and plotting to undo policies that seek to lift tens of millions of people from grinding poverty. "If they can do this to me, what will they do to working people?" she asked, announcing a new increase to the family allowance program called Bolsa Familia. The crowd chanted: "There won’t be a coup, there’ll be a struggle!" Rousseff, in the second year of her second term, could be suspended from office as soon as May 10 or 11 when the Senate is expected to vote to open a trial on charges of illegal government accounting. If so she’d be replaced by her vice president, Michel Temer, the leader of Brazil’s biggest center-right party and a former coalition partner in Rouseff’s government. A final vote in the Senate later this year, possibly in September, could remove her office definitively and keep Temer in power until elections in 2018. Although Rousseff appears nearly certain to be suspended, she and her allies, including charismatic former president Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva, hope the case will collapse when it comes to the final vote, where a two- thirds majority of senators is needed to pass impeachment. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 The Rio Oleolympics might have more entertainment than just sports. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2016-05-03 20:38 |
| #3 Brazil’s embattled leftist President Dilma Rousseff vowed at a protest Sunday to go down fighting ahead of what could be her final full week in power before impeachment. Anyone other than a pseudo-commie would've been on the street weeks ago - with the world's media cheering. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-05-03 14:03 |
| #2 Brazilian legislature has more 'huevos rancheros' than the American Congress. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-05-03 08:34 |
| #1 The Real (Brazilian Currency) started out almost equal to $1 US years ago. Now if you go to an American Wendy's, a hamburger combo will cost you 36 Real. Just like here in the U.S., the audacity of the corrupt is cold blooded. |
| Posted by: Ho Chi Crinens5363 2016-05-03 02:21 |