Brazil’s impeachment saga ends with Mayakovsky

Brazil’s Senate voted to officially remove suspended President Dilma Rousseff from office on Wednesday for manipulating government accounts to benefit her campaign. Speaking to the nation in televised address Wednesday evening, Temer hit back at Rousseff.

The biggest political scandal in Latin America ran the risk of being largely ignored by the mainstream mass media in Russia, had Rousseff not exhibited her passion for Russian poetry. I am certain I can say: “‘See you soon'”.

According to a report in the Guardian, ” For more than 10 months, the leftist leader fought efforts to impeach her for frontloading funds for government social programmes and issuing spending budget decrees without congressional approval ahead of her reelection in 2014.

“Today, left-wing governments have to pay the costs”. And so far he has struggled to build consensus around key reforms, such as slimming the country’s pension system.

Within six hours of the impeachment vote, Temer was on a plane to China, the first of a series of global trips to attract investors and show the world that he is Brazil’s legitimate leader. “It’s you who is breaking the constitution”. The 75-year-old career politician named a Cabinet of all-white men, a decision roundly criticized in a nation that is more than 50 percent nonwhite. New elections would first require that Temer resign, which he has no intention of doing. Prosecutors and judges uncovered a web of billions of dollars of kickbacks at the state oil giant Petrobras. Brazilian envoys to Bolivia and Ecuador have also been ordered home. The two-year probe has led to the jailing of dozens of top businessmen and politicians from across the political spectrum, and threatens numerous same lawmakers who voted to remove Rousseff.

It was the second impeachment in the 31 years since the country emerged from military dictatorship and one that will pave the way for a fundamental shift in economic policy after 13 years of her party’s leftist rule.

“Temer will have to negotiate unpopular measures in Congress and being president is very different to being a legislator, which is the experience he has”, Cesar said. “They think that they beat us, but they are wrong”, said Rousseff on Wednesday in her first remarks after being removed from office.

Rousseff argued that many opponents wanted her out of the way so they could save themselves by tampering with the investigation, which Rousseff had refused to do. Police fired tear gas at some supporters of the former leader in an attempt to quell the protests.

“We hope and believe that Brazil can continue to maintain national stability and socio-economic development and continue to play an important role in global and regional affairs”, she said, when asked about Rousseff’s removal.