Dilma Rousseff: Ruling party concedes defeat in lower house vote to impeach Brazil's President
Updated about an hour ago
Brazil's ruling Workers Party has conceded defeat in the lower house vote to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, said the party's leader in the chamber, Jose Guimaraes.
Photo: Brazilian MPs argue during the impeachment session. (AFP: Evaristo Sa)
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He said the party would now focus on blocking the move to remove her from office in the Senate, where a vote, probably in May, will decide whether to open a trial.
Earlier, Brazilian MPs fought and shouted at the opening of a session to decide whether Ms Rousseff should face impeachment in a political showdown watched by millions around the deeply divided Latin American powerhouse.
Months of rancorous debate that has seen Ms Rousseff's ruling coalition collapse and prompted huge street demonstrations came to a head in the capital Brasilia, where the lower house of Congress voted on whether to authorize an impeachment trial.
Tensions boiled over as soon as the house speaker, Eduardo Cunha, who is a fierce opponent of Ms Rousseff, opened the session.
Rival deputies alternately shouted "there will be no coup!" or "impeachment now!" as well as singing the national anthem and a patriotic song regularly sung at football games.
Minutes later they were scuffling, with one group briefly unfurling a banner behind the speaker, reading: "Out with Cunha!"
The whole procedure was being aired live on television to the country of 204 million, the biggest in Latin America, and also on screens erected in city squares.
Divided Brazilians hold rival protests
Photo: Activists supporting the impeachment protest in Sao Paolo. (AFP: Nelson Almeida)
Thousands of demonstrators both for and against Ms Rousseff took to the streets ahead of the vote under the eye of riot police.
In Brasilia, a huge metal barrier was raised to separate rival protesters and in Rio de Janeiro, which is scrambling to organise the Olympics this August, the two sides were demonstrating at separate time slots on Copacabana beach.
Farmer Silmar Borazio, 50, who made a 20-hour journey to the capital with pro-impeachment supporters, said Brazil needed change after plunging into political chaos and its worst recession for decades.
"The first thing that needs to happen is for Dilma to leave. We are tired of producing revenue and seeing that in the end nothing improves in the country and it gets stolen," he said.
From iron lady to impeachment target
Four decades on from being tortured under Brazil's military dictatorship, President Dilma Rousseff rose to the top — only to face impeachment.
In Rio, hundreds of Ms Rousseff supporters gathered at the beach which will host several Olympic events, shouting "There will be no coup!"
"There won't be a coup, there'll be struggle," one woman dressed in a red Workers' Party shirt shouted.
Ms Rousseff, 68, is accused of illegal accounting manoeuvrers to mask government shortfalls during her 2014 re-election.
Many Brazilians also hold her responsible for the economic mess and a massive corruption scandal centred on state oil company Petrobras, a toxic record that has left her Government with 10 per cent approval ratings.
Reuters/AFP
READ MORE: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-18/brazil-congress-votes-on-rousseff-impeachment/7333462
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