Brazil's Congressional Committee Votes To Impeach President Dilma Rousseff

The Guardian: Brazil's congressional committee votes in favour of impeaching Dilma Rousseff

President suffers damaging setback as committee sets stage for full vote in lower house of Congress later this week.

Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff began a week that could make or break her administration with a bruising defeat in a Congressional impeachment committee.

After a bad-natured and at times chaotic debate, the members on the committee voted 38 to 27 to proceed with a motion to remove the Workers’ party leader from office for puffing up government accounts before the 2014 election.

Their decision, which sets the stage for a full vote of the lower house to approve the country’s first presidential impeachment, raises the already high political temperature in Brasilia closer to boiling point.

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