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May 14th, 2016 
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nsnbc : Brazil risks tumbling into political turmoil after the Senate, on Thursday voted to suspend President Dilma Russeff from office for 180 days, pending a trial hearing over alleged fiscal manipulations by Rousseff in 2014 and 2015.
The Senate voted with 55-22 for the impeachment of Rousseff in the early hours of Thursday after a more than 20 hour-long Marathon session and heated debates. The 55 – 22 vote means that members of Rousseff’s own Workers’ Party must have voted for the impeachment.
Rousseff has already began moving from the presidential residence and has been temporarily been removed from office until the Senate, after maximum 180 days, announces the findings of the trial against her. Vice President Michel Temer will take over in the period.
Chances for a return of Rousseff to office are slim, considering that the opposition managed to get two-thirds in the first round of voting. The development is considered as a serious setback for Brazil’s Workers’ Party. The development prompted both celebratory demonstrations and protest demonstrations in the streets of the capital Brasilia and other cities.
It is unlikely that Rousseff’s successor, Michel Temer will be able to easily prevent that the country descends into political turmoil. On April 5 Supreme Court justice Marco Aurelio Mello ordered the lower house of congress to install a special commission to analyze the possible impeachment of Temer. Senator Randolfe Rodrigues noted that if Rousseff is impeached due to the alleged fiscal manipulations in 2014 and 2015, then Temer, as her vice president, was also involved and should be impeached too.
Rousseff, for her part, denounced the allegations against her and her impeachment as a modern coup d’Ètat and vowed to fight the impeachment. Rousseff, who was a revolutionary fighter during Brazil’s dictatorship, said that this was the second time in her life that she was facing an utterly unjust trial. During a speech given at the Planalto presidential palace before she left the premises, Rousseff said “I am the living proof that a coup is being orchestrated against all advances made in the last 13 years”.
Regardless of who it is that will be at the helm of government, returning political stability and maintaining social stability will also be complicated by the country’s sluggish economy. Official data showed that Brazil’s gross domestic product (GDP) shrank 3.8 percent last year due to the fall in commodity product prices, which was the worst performance in the past 25 years.
If the GDP continues to decrease this year, it will be the first time that the Brazilian economy suffers a recession for two consecutive years since 1930. Brazil is expected to see a reduction of 3.77 percent in its GDP, and an inflation rate of 7.14 percent and an unemployment rate of up to 9 percent in 2016. Some experts even predicted that the economic recession in Brazil would continue until 2018.
CH/L – nsnbc 13.05.2016
Source Article from http://nsnbc.me/2016/05/13/brazil-faces-political-turmoil-after-impeachment-of-rousseff/
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