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Weekly Report - 22 October 2015 (WR-15-42)
BRAZIL: Impeachment: thirty-second time lucky?
A convicted thief, an international lawyer and a retired professor filed the thirty-second request to impeach President Dilma Rousseff on 21 October. Representatives from the opposition Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB), Democratas (DEM), Partido Popular Socialista (PPS) and Solidaridade took part in a ceremony to mark the handover of three ringbinders’ worth of evidence to the speaker of the federal lower chamber, Eduardo Cunha. Much of the focus of this impeachment request centres on allegations that the creative accounting employed by the Rousseff government in 2014 went on into 2015. Cunha promised to process the claim “as quickly as possible”.
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