Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff shows a document confirming former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's appointment as chief of staff, at Planalto palace in Brasilia, Brazil, March 17, 2016. REUTERS/ADRIANO MACHADO
Reuters: Brazil's Rousseff knew about bribery scheme, senator says: magazine
A senator accused of involvement in Brazil's biggest corruption scandal said on Saturday President Dilma Rousseff and her predecessor Lula were aware of it and tried to block investigations, as a poll showed support for her impeachment rising.
In an interview with Brazil's best-selling weekly news magazine, Senator Delcidio do Amaral said Rousseff's successful presidential campaigns in 2010 and 2014 were financed with money from the graft scheme.
Amaral was the leader of the ruling Workers' Party (PT) in the Senate and a close Rousseff ally until he was arrested in November on charges of attempting to bribe a former executive of state-run oil company Petrobras in exchange for his silence in the investigation..
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Rousseff had a stint in city government in Porto Alegre.
While IMO it qualifies her for higher office more so than Christine Kirchner's marriage to a president, how well did a stint at city government in the most lily white major city in Brasil qualify here. Check the geography and demographics. Porto Alegre just would not have the poverty that Sao Paolo or Rio would have.
Sao Paulo and Rio are tough nuts for anyone to crack. Why not hire a city admin for president from those cities instead of a relatively easy city to administer.
Rousseff may have been born in Brasil, but she is a Bulgarian transplant with no kids. Does she care more about socialism or Brasil?
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