{"id":25258,"date":"2016-05-11T02:41:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T02:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/dilma-rousseff-takes-impeachment-fight-to-supreme\/"},"modified":"2016-05-11T02:41:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T02:41:19","slug":"dilma-rousseff-takes-impeachment-fight-to-supreme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/dilma-rousseff-takes-impeachment-fight-to-supreme\/","title":{"rendered":"Dilma Rousseff takes impeachment fight to Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Attorney general requests annulment of impeachment proceedings against Brazil’s president.}<\/p>\n

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has taken her battle to survive impeachment to the Supreme Court in a last-ditch attempt to stay in office a day before the Senate is expected to vote to try her for breaking budget laws.<\/p>\n

Brazil’s Attorney General Eduardo Cardozo, the government’s top lawyer, asked the Supreme Court to annul impeachment proceedings on Tuesday, his office said.<\/p>\n

Cardozo’s move comes ahead of a vote that could see Rousseff suspended from office for up to six months to stand trial and eventually, removed from office.<\/p>\n

Rousseff’s opponents have more than the 41 votes needed to launch her trial in the upper chamber of the Congress, and they are confident they can muster two-thirds of the 81 senators, or 54, to unseat the president.<\/p>\n

As the prospect grew of Rousseff’s removal and a potential end to 13 years of rule by her leftist Workers Party, anti-impeachment protesters blocked roads and burned tires in the capital Sao Paulo and other cities early on Wednesday. Morning traffic was disrupted as protesters clashed with police. <\/p>\n

Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo, reporting from the capital Sao Paolo, said everything was ready in Brazil for the Senate session which will determine Rousseff’s future.<\/p>\n

“Many here say the attorney general’s appeal to the Supreme Court to avoid the impeachment process is unlikely to change anything,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Rousseff said on Tuesday that she is not tired of this fight, but of those who have been disloyal to her, adding that what was happening in Brazil was a coup, asking people to defend democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier on the same day, Waldir Maranhao, the acting speaker of the lower house of Congress, withdrew his controversial decision to annul last month’s impeachment vote in the chamber.<\/p>\n

Maranhao, a little known politician before taking over last week after the removal of Eduardo Cunha for obstruction of a corruption investigation, faces expulsion from his centre-right Progressive Party, which supports Rousseff’s impeachment.<\/p>\n

Rousseff’s opponents have more than the 41 votes needed to launch her trial in the upper chamber of the Congress, and they are confident they can muster two-thirds of the 81 senators, or 54, to unseat the president.<\/p>\n

As the prospect grew of Rousseff’s removal and a potential end to 13 years of rule by her leftist Workers Party, anti-impeachment protesters blocked roads and burned tires in the capital Sao Paulo and other cities early on Wednesday. Morning traffic was disrupted as protesters clashed with police. <\/p>\n

Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo, reporting from the capital Sao Paolo, said everything was ready in Brazil for the Senate session which will determine Rousseff’s future.<\/p>\n

“Many here say the attorney general’s appeal to the Supreme Court to avoid the impeachment process is unlikely to change anything,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Rousseff said on Tuesday that she is not tired of this fight, but of those who have been disloyal to her, adding that what was happening in Brazil was a coup, asking people to defend democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier on the same day, Waldir Maranhao, the acting speaker of the lower house of Congress, withdrew his controversial decision to annul last month’s impeachment vote in the chamber.<\/p>\n

Maranhao, a little known politician before taking over last week after the removal of Eduardo Cunha for obstruction of a corruption investigation, faces expulsion from his centre-right Progressive Party, which supports Rousseff’s impeachment.<\/p>\n

The Workers’ Party and labour unions called for a national strike to resist what they call a “coup” against democracy.<\/p>\n

The impeachment process comes as Brazil is mired in its worst recession since the 1930s and shaken by the country’s biggest ever corruption scandal, which have paralysed Rousseff’s second-term administration.<\/p>\n

Rousseff has steadfastly denied committing any impeachable crime and has vowed to fight impeachment by all means legally possible. She has dismissed calls for her resignation.<\/p>\n

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