{"id":24537,"date":"2016-04-12T01:21:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T01:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/brazilian-leader-dilma-rousseff-faces-impeachment\/"},"modified":"2016-04-12T01:20:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T01:20:58","slug":"brazilian-leader-dilma-rousseff-faces-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/brazilian-leader-dilma-rousseff-faces-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian leader Dilma Rousseff faces impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The commission was due to vote later Monday.}<\/p>\n<p>An impeachment commission was due to vote Monday on the fate of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff ahead of a vote by the lower house of Congress to decide whether she should go to trial.<\/p>\n<p>Bad-tempered debate, interrupted by heckling and chanting, kicked off in the commission in Brasilia while security forces mounted a huge operation outside to separate rival demonstrators expected in the capital later this week.<\/p>\n<p>The commission was due to vote later Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The room overflowed with journalists and politicians, most of whom displayed placards reading alternately \u201cTime for impeachment\u201d or \u201cImpeachment without a crime is a coup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paulo Pimenta, a deputy with Rousseff\u2019s Workers\u2019 Party, told AFP that the president would lose the commission vote by a margin of about 35-29.<\/p>\n<p>However, the commission vote is non-binding, so focus is concentrated on the crucial lower house vote expected either April 17 or 18.<\/p>\n<p>A two-thirds majority in the lower house would send Rousseff\u2019s case to the Senate, which would then have the power to put her on trial and ultimately drive her from office.<\/p>\n<p>Rousseff, accused of fiddling accounts to mask the dire state of the government budget during her 2014 re-election, is fighting desperately to ensure enough support among deputies to stop the process.<\/p>\n<p>The latest survey of the 513 deputies in the lower house by Estadao daily on Monday showed 292 in favor, still short of the 342 needed to carry the motion.<\/p>\n<p>The count showed 115 opposing impeachment, with 172 required to impose a defeat.<\/p>\n<p>That left the result in the hands of the 106 deputies still undecided or not stating a position.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11582 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/337206-01-02-2.jpg\" alt=\"Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. Bribe money from a giant corruption scheme at Brazilian state oil company Petrobras went into President Dilma Rousseff\u2019 re-election campaign coffers, a former CEO has told prosecutors, a report said on Thursday.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The commission was due to vote later Monday.} An impeachment commission was due to vote Monday on the fate of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff ahead of a vote by the lower house of Congress to decide whether she should go to trial. 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