Brazil's Coalition Government Is Facing Collapse

France 24: Impeachment looms as coalition partners set to quit Brazil government

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s main coalition partners appeared set to quit her government on Tuesday, in a move that would deepen the country’s political crisis and push her closer to impeachment.

Leaders of the country's largest party, the centrist PMDB, were meeting in the capital of Brasilia to decide whether to stay or to leave the embattled left-wing leader’s government. But top party members, including Brazilian Vice President Michel Temer, signalled a split was imminent.

"It will be an exit meeting, a goodbye to the government. We calculate we have a vote of more than 80 percent in favour of quitting," said PMDB lawmaker Osmar Terra. "There has been a series of dominoes falling, and it cannot be turned back. The government keeps trying, and offers government positions, but nobody believes it anymore," he added.

In a likely omen for Tuesday’s PMDB vote, Tourism Minister Henrique Eduardo Alves presented Rousseff with his resignation on Monday.

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