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Brazil’s Rousseff saddened by moves for her impeachment

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April 12, 2016

Brazil's Rousseff saddened by moves for her impeachment

President Dilma Rousseff reports say is saddened by plans by Brazil’s lower house to impeach her following allegations of breaking budget laws in favour of her re-election bid in 2014.

Brazil’s lower house of Congress committee voted 38-27 to recommend Rousseff’s impeachment as major political crisis deepens in the South American country.

On Sunday, there will be a vote in full at the lower house to determine Rousseff’s fate and if two-thirds vote in favour, the impeachment will be sent to the Senate.

If the upper house decides by a simple majority to put Rousseff on trial, she will immediately be suspended for up to six months while the Senate decides her fate, and Vice President Michel Temer will take office as acting president.

But Rousseff is saddened and disturbed by such moves according to her chief of staff, Jaques Wagner; “the president was “perplexed and saddened” by the committee vote. A former leftist guerrilla, she has denied any wrongdoing and rallied the rank and file of her Workers’ Party to oppose what she has called a coup against a democratically-elected president.”

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