{"id":24723,"date":"2016-04-19T02:30:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T02:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/brazil-s-rousseff-defiant-after-impeachment-vote\/"},"modified":"2016-04-19T02:29:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T02:29:42","slug":"brazil-s-rousseff-defiant-after-impeachment-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/brazil-s-rousseff-defiant-after-impeachment-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil&#8217;s Rousseff defiant after impeachment vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Brazil&#8217;s president says she is outraged in emotional address after Congress authorised a move to impeach her.}<\/p>\n<p>Brazil&#8217;s President Dilma Rousseff has said that she is &#8220;outraged&#8221; by a vote in Congress to authorise impeachment proceedings against her.<\/p>\n<p>In an emotional first public response on Monday, Rousseff said that she would &#8220;continue to fight&#8221; for her political survival and that there was no legal basis for any impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>Rousseff is accused of making illegal accounting moves to mask government shortfalls during her 2014 re-election, but she has not been accused of corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Many Brazilians also hold her responsible for the failing economy and a corruption scandal centred on state oil company Petrobras &#8211; a perception that has left her government with 10 percent approval ratings.<\/p>\n<p>{{Senate vote}}<\/p>\n<p>Brazilian legislators voted in favour of impeaching Rousseff on Sunday after a contest that has deeply divided the country and could end more than a decade of left-wing rule.<\/p>\n<p>The motion will now go to the Senate which will vote, probably in May, on whether to open a trial. <\/p>\n<p>If the Senate votes by a simple majority to go ahead with the impeachment, Rousseff, 68, would be suspended from her post and be replaced by Vice President Michel Temer as acting president, pending a trial.<\/p>\n<p>Temer would serve out Rousseff&#8217;s term until 2018 if she were found guilty.<\/p>\n<p>The impeachment battle, which comes during Brazil&#8217;s worst recession since the 1930s, has divided the country of 200 million people more deeply than at any time since the end of its military dictatorship in 1985.<\/p>\n<p>The 513 legislators voted one by one, all of them given 30 seconds to speak before casting their ballots. The floor of the lower house was a sea of Brazilian flags and pumping fists as dozens of MPs carried the deputy who cast the decisive 342nd vote &#8211; needed for impeachment to succeed &#8211; in their arms.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11788 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/a62d96a68d094e3eb0ed7c22a30ca03f_18.jpg\" alt=\"Brazil&#039;s President Dilma Rousseff addressed the nation after an impeachment vote by Congress\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Brazil&#8217;s president says she is outraged in emotional address after Congress authorised a move to impeach her.} Brazil&#8217;s President Dilma Rousseff has said that she is &#8220;outraged&#8221; by a vote in Congress to authorise impeachment proceedings against her. In an emotional first public response on Monday, Rousseff said that she would &#8220;continue to fight&#8221; for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[101],"byline":[2474],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-24723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-internationl","byline-al-jazeera"],"bylines":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24723"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=24723"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=24723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}