MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) – The judges held an emergency session discussing the request late on Thursday. Brazil’s Globo TV reported in the early hours of Friday that the request was rejected by most of STF members.
On Monday, a committee of the lower house (Chamber of Deputies) of Brazil’s National Congress approved a report recommending the impeachment of Rousseff. If two-thirds of the lower house vote for the move on Sunday, the motion will go to the Senate (upper house).
According to Solicitor General José Eduardo Cardozo, who filed the Thursday government petition for the suspension of the impeachment process, the committee considered unrelated evidence when making its decision to go ahead of the impeachment proceedings.
Earlier this week, the Progressive Party (PP) and the Social Democratic Party (PSD) left Rousseff’s coalition. The Brazilian Democratic Movement Party left the governing coalition in late March.
Rousseff vowed on Wednesday to fight against attempts to impeach her to the bitter end.
