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My Impeachment process has all the traits of a coup, Rousseff says
Embattled Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff says the impeachment process agsinst her has “all the characteristics of a coup” as it has no legal basis.
She is therefore considering an appeal if she is impeached illegally in a move signaling yet that she could continue fighting her ouster if the Senate removes her from office.
While addressing an international audience on Friday, Rousseff said she would appeal to the Mercosur bloc of South American nations for Brazil to be suspended if democratic process is broken.
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“I would appeal to the democracy clause if there were, from now on, a rupture of what I consider democratic process,” she told reporters in New York.
Mercosur has a democratic clause that can be triggered when an elected government is overthrown in any of its member states, as happened in Paraguay in 2012. A breach results in suspension from meetings and can lead to the country losing its trade benefits.
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