Posted on 05/12/2016 7:29:10 AM PDT by Enterprise
Brazil's Senate voted on Thursday to put leftist President Dilma Rousseff on trial in a historic decision brought on by a deep recession and a corruption scandal that will now confront her successor, Vice President Michel Temer.
With Rousseff to be suspended during the Senate trial for allegedly breaking budget rules, the centrist Temer will take the helm of a country that again finds itself mired in political and economic volatility after a recent decade of prosperity.
The 55-22 vote ends more than 13 years of rule by the left-wing Workers Party, which rose from Brazil's labor movement and helped pull millions of people out of poverty before seeing many of its leaders tainted by corruption investigations.
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As I understand it, she must step down for 180 days during which time the Senate will hold a formal trial.
Why do you have to derail a thread on Brazil with a comment on the Obama administration?
To me, there is a resounding message that keeps being encountered time and time again. That message is that no person, nor any group of people can be trusted with the power of government for any more than a short defined period of time. Term limits for all political positions is an absolute requirement.
Clinton’s future. She should be watching this.
Most every politician, judge, gov employee... will sell anything they can glom on to.
Down in the streets the natives appear to steal anything and everything; and they shoot often.
Beyond the sand of the beach is a sea of shiite.
Should you make passed that, the zika will ruin your life.
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