A report by
independent auditors on behalf of Brazil’s Senate indicates that
the impeachment effort against democratically elected Brazilian
President Dilma Rousseff is without basis nearly two months after the
official was suspended from office for 180 days pending a final vote
by legislators.
The
justification for the impeachment effort against the Brazilian leader
was that she used a budget trick known as pedaladas, or the illegal
delay of repayments to state banks, to mask public debt in the lead
up to her 2014 presidential election bid. However, the Senate’s
expert report concluded that there was “no indication of direct or
indirect action by Dilma” to engage in such budgetary malfeasance.
[...]
On Tuesday,
the top columnist for Brazil’s Folha de Sao Paulo paper, Elio
Gaspari, blasted Michel Temer and his Brazilian Democratic Movement
(PMDB) allies for staging a legalized mutiny under the title "There
is a Coup" while even western media outlets favorable to the
agenda of austerity and natural resource pillaging of the interim
president are beginning to wonder whether the impeachment was more or
less theatrical window dressing for an undemocratic overthrow.
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