Brazil's Lower House Votes to Impeach President Dilma Rousseff

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Brazil's Chamber of Deputies voted Sunday to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, delivering a major blow to a long-embattled leader who has repeatedly argued that the push against her was a "coup."</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjevl8ZXp-qnOXrg5kXiGwGEP_f2LBrQfzPFZ8xbXRQfYii3TeLqpRKianI8yfDj_1PW7c-zbr0lHbPzoHeCygp_WRy-lhMpYiAHEVJogjBoUy2K0hxIOxbKqa9xS9SqeZGCD4W7td7ObF-/s1600/world.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjevl8ZXp-qnOXrg5kXiGwGEP_f2LBrQfzPFZ8xbXRQfYii3TeLqpRKianI8yfDj_1PW7c-zbr0lHbPzoHeCygp_WRy-lhMpYiAHEVJogjBoUy2K0hxIOxbKqa9xS9SqeZGCD4W7td7ObF-/s320/world.jpg" width="320" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">With at least 342 of 513 deputies, or two-thirds, voting in favor of impeachment, the measure passed late Sunday, sending the proceedings move to the Senate for a possible trial. Several lawmakers had yet to vote, so the final tally could be even wider.</span></div> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">"The fight continues now in the Senate," Jose Guimaraes, the leader of Rousseff's Workers Party in the Chamber of Deputies, told reporters Sunday night.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Rousseff faces impeachment over allegations that she broke fiscal laws to boost her government's floundering popularity amid a tanking economy and a widespread corruption scandal. She has denied wrongdoing, saying previous presidents used similar accounting techniques.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">But a close ally lamented that so many lawmakers were voting against Rousseff.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc5zyLYUMtYB2XPgypRq-n2gpoPURmoPiL2Bzy2JgMdWfvVGwI4kMWI0tJVXiCGbuWqRuWLM_Z6DNlnw4oqLYDepTxN4Jls-MH0F0ZLBJVzBQ5T2K5rjIfcE5xGZuGb-7DZMaySdfEe6hE/s1600/world.jpg2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc5zyLYUMtYB2XPgypRq-n2gpoPURmoPiL2Bzy2JgMdWfvVGwI4kMWI0tJVXiCGbuWqRuWLM_Z6DNlnw4oqLYDepTxN4Jls-MH0F0ZLBJVzBQ5T2K5rjIfcE5xGZuGb-7DZMaySdfEe6hE/s320/world.jpg2.jpg" width="320" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">"It was a herd effect, and many betrayed us. It was a double defeat," said Orlando Silva, a Communist Party legislator and close supporter of Rousseff.</span></div> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The vote was the culmination of months of political wrangling that exposed deep polarization in Latin America's largest nation and most powerful economy. The government has been paralyzed and the population has been sharply divided during the ordeal, with friends and foes of Rousseff dismissing one another as "putchists" and "thieves."</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">After each lawmaker voted Sunday, cheers and boos erupted as legislators looked up at a board keeping score.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Luiz Carlos Hauly, a deputy in the opposition Social Democratic Party, said Rousseff had to go.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">"In Europe, they change their government when it doesn't have the majority," he said. "This administration has no majority. It doesn't have the means to govern."</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Post Credit: </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>Nbcnews</i></b></span></span></span></div> </div>

Brazil's Lower House Votes to Impeach President Dilma Rousseff

Brazil's Chamber of Deputies voted Sunday to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, delivering a major blow to a long-embattled leader who ...

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