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Senate head overrules annulment of Rousseff’s impeachment process

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8 years ago

May 10, 2016

Brazilian Senate gives go-ahead for Rousseff’s impeachment trial

Two days after the acting speaker of the lower house in Brazil annulled the impeachment process of President Dilma Rousseff, the Senate head has overruled the lower house speaker’s bid to annul the process.

The acting speaker, Waldir Maranhao said there were procedural flaws in the April 17 vote in the chamber that accepted impeachment charges against Rousseff while calling for a new vote in the lower chamber.

Brazil’s Senate head Renan Calheiros is however pressing ahead with the impeachment process against Rousseff despite a surprise decision by the lower house’s interim speaker to annul it.

The head of the Senate said on Monday he had rejected the interim speaker’s decision and that a vote in the Senate on whether to put Rousseff on trial would continue as scheduled.

“No monocrotic decision can super impose a collective decision, specially when the decision was taken with the highest form of collectiveness in the house,” he said.

After last month’s lower house vote, the impeachment process was passed to the Senate, where a Senate committee recommended on Friday that the leftist president be put on trial by the full chamber for breaking budget laws.

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