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Thursday 4 August 2016

Brazil Senate committee votes to put Rousseff on trial

A Senate impeachment committee voted on Thursday to put suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on trial in the full chamber for breaking budget laws, opening the way for her to be removed from office.

The 21-member committee voted 14-5 to try Rousseff for allegedly doctoring government accounts to allow more public spending in the run-up to her 2014 re-election.

Her impeachment would mark the end of 13 years of rule by the left-of-center Workers Party. Along with a string of corruption scandals, it has already set off Brazil’s worst political crisis in decades as the country prepares to host the Olympic Games in the midst of a severe recession.

The political uncertainty has kept most foreign leaders away from the Games, which open on Friday in Rio de Janeiro.

The Senate will vote next Tuesday whether to accept the charges against Rousseff and begin the trial that should reach a verdict at the end of the month......http://www.france24.com/en/20160804-brazil-senate-committee-votes-put-rousseff-trial
4/8/16

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