{"id":9229,"date":"2015-10-08T19:17:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T13:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=9229"},"modified":"2015-10-08T19:17:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T13:47:12","slug":"brazils-president-dilma-rousseff-could-face-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=9229","title":{"rendered":"Brazil&#8217;s president Dilma Rousseff  could face impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/dilma-rousseff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9230\" src=\"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/dilma-rousseff.jpg\" alt=\"dilma rousseff\" width=\"208\" height=\"117\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brazil\u2019s besieged president, Dilma Rousseff, has lost a major battle after the federal audit court rejected her government\u2019s accounts from 2014, paving the way for her opponents to try to impeach her.<\/p>\n<p>In a unanimous vote the federal accounts court, known as the TCU, ruled Rousseff\u2019s government manipulated its accounts in 2014 to disguise a widening fiscal deficit as she campaigned for re-election.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling, the TCU\u2019s first against a Brazilian president in nearly 80 years, is not legally binding but will be used by opposition lawmakers to argue for impeachment proceedings against the unpopular leftist leader in an increasingly hostile congress.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition leaders hugged and cheered when the ruling was announced in Congress, though it was not clear how quickly they would move or whether they have enough support to impeach the president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis establishes that they doctored fiscal accounts, which is an administrative crime and President Rousseff should face an impeachment vote,\u201d said Carlos Sampaio, leader of the opposition PSDB party in the lower house.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the end for the Rousseff government,\u201d said Rubens Bueno, a congressman from the PPS party. He said the opposition has the votes to start proceedings in the lower house though perhaps not the two-thirds majority needed for an impeachment trial in the senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil\u2019s besieged president, Dilma Rousseff, has lost a major battle after the federal audit court rejected her government\u2019s accounts from 2014, paving the way for her opponents to try to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=9229\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[579,580,581],"class_list":["post-9229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-today","tag-brazil","tag-dilma-rouseff","tag-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}