Dilma Rousseff

Brazil Senate to open Rousseff's impeachment trial

EghtesadOnline: Brazil's Senate will open the impeachment trial of suspended President Dilma Rousseff on Thursday and hear witnesses for and against the leftist leader who is expected to be removed from office next week on charges of breaking budget laws.

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Publish Date:25/August/2016 | 10:33

Brazilians Want Temer Until 2018

EghtesadOnline: Half of Brazilians would like to see interim President Michel Temer stay in the job until the next election in 2018, compared with 32% who desire the return of suspended President Dilma Rousseff , according to a Datafolha poll published on Saturday on the Folha de S.Paulo website.

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Publish Date:18/July/2016 | 14:39

Brazil former presidents Lula and Rousseff charged in corruption case

EghtesadOnline: Brazil’s top prosecutor on Tuesday charged former Presidents Luis Inacio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff along with fellow Workers Party members with forming a criminal organization, the latest accusations in Brazil’s sprawling corruption scandal.

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Publish Date:06/September/2017 | 06:39

Brazil's Workers Party faces thrashing in local elections

EghtesadOnline: Brazilians vote on Sunday in the first elections since the impeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff - and her leftist Workers Party (PT) is expected to suffer a major setback.

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Publish Date:02/October/2016 | 05:08

Rousseff Vows to Fight On After Impeachment

EghtesadOnline: Ousted ex-president Dilma Rousseff has promised to provide a strong opposition to the new center-right government. Her lawyers have already launched an appeal against her removal from office.

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Publish Date:04/September/2016 | 11:19

Brazil's Rousseff ousted by Senate, Temer sworn in

EghtesadOnline: Brazil's Senate ousted President Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday, ending an impeachment process that polarized Latin America's biggest country amid a massive corruption scandal and brutal economic crisis.

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Publish Date:01/September/2016 | 07:57

Brazil impeachment opens diplomatic rift in Latin America

EghtesadOnline: The dismissal of Brazil's president upset relations with leftist Latin American governments on Wednesday as Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia recalled their ambassadors to protest what they called a "coup" and Brasilia responded in kind.

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Publish Date:01/September/2016 | 07:17

Defiant Rousseff says Brazil's democracy on trial with her

EghtesadOnline: A defiant President Dilma Rousseff warned on Monday that her conservative opponents were trampling on Brazil's democracy by using trumped-up charges to oust her and roll back the social advances of 13 years of leftist rule.

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Publish Date:30/August/2016 | 07:41

Brazil's Dilma Rousseff takes stand in impeachment trial

EghtesadOnline: Suspended President Dilma Rousseff will make a last stand in Brazil's Senate on Monday in an impeachment trial that is widely expected to remove her from office and end more than a decade of leftist rule by her Workers Party.

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Publish Date:29/August/2016 | 06:34

Brazil's Senate indicts Rousseff, opens impeachment trial

EghtesadOnline: Brazil's Senate voted early on Wednesday to indict President Dilma Rousseff on charges of breaking budget laws and put her on trial in an impeachment process that has stalled Brazilian politics since January.

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Publish Date:10/August/2016 | 08:54

Brazil Senate Committee Clears Way for Rousseff’s Removal

EghtesadOnline: 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.

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Publish Date:06/August/2016 | 09:47