MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) — The upcoming vote in the Brazilian Federal Senate on the issue of President Dilma Rousseff impeachment might be supported by over a half of members of the upper house of the parliament, a survey conducted by the Folha de Sao Paolo newspaper revealed on Tuesday.
The senators will hold an impeachment vote after a special Senate commission is formed within 10 days to assess the legal validity of Rousseff’s dismissal and make a non-binding recommendation.
Rousseff has been facing a wave of public discontent for over a year amid Brazil’s struggling economy and a major corruption scandal in the state-owned Petrobras petroleum company. The opposition has accused the president of corruption and of violating financial rules by manipulating state bank accounts to close budget gaps.
