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Rousseff: Brazil faces threat of coup d’etat
[Iran Press TV] Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff has accused supporters of her impeachment of trying to grab power in order to avoid corruption charges against themselves, saying the country faces the threat of a coup d’état.In a video and a newspaper column published on Saturday, Rousseff strongly denied No, no! Certainly not! she had committed an impeachable crime, saying the parliamentary bid to oust her from power is the biggest legal and political fraud in Brazil’s history. "We are facing the threat of a coup d'état, a coup without guns that uses more destructive methods like fraud and lies to try to destroy a legitimately elected government," Rousseff, Brazil's first female president, wrote in the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper. Rousseff accused Vice President Michel Temer and House Speaker Eduardo Cunha of leading a conspiracy against her. Lower House politicians are due to vote on Sunday on whether to call for an impeachment. The pro-impeachment camp needs 342 votes, or two-thirds of the 513 votes in the chamber, to send the proceedings to the senate for a possible trial. Then a simple majority among the senators would see Rousseff out of power. Posted by: Fred 2016-04-17 |
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