{"id":67385,"date":"2015-12-07T13:52:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T13:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=67385"},"modified":"2015-12-07T13:52:34","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T13:52:34","slug":"impeachment-against-rousseff-might-be-a-matter-of-personal-vengeance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/12\/impeachment-against-rousseff-might-be-a-matter-of-personal-vengeance\/","title":{"rendered":"Impeachment against Rousseff Might Be a Matter of Personal Vengeance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Impeachment proceedings against Brazil\u2019s President launched by speaker of the lower house Eduardo Cunha is a matter of his personal vengeance, Deputy Leader of the Workers Party in the Brazilian parliament Margarida Salomao told Sputnik Thursday [3 Dec 2015].<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_67386\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dilma-rousseff-brasil-brazil-impeachment.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67386\" class=\"wp-image-67386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dilma-rousseff-brasil-brazil-impeachment.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9 AP Photo\/ Nelson Antoine\" width=\"700\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dilma-rousseff-brasil-brazil-impeachment.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dilma-rousseff-brasil-brazil-impeachment-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-67386\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 AP Photo\/ Nelson Antoine<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Impeachment proceedings against\u00a0Brazil\u2019s President Dilma Rousseff launched by\u00a0speaker of\u00a0the lower house Eduardo Cunha is a matter of\u00a0his personal vengeance, Deputy Leader of\u00a0the Workers Party in\u00a0the Brazilian parliament Margarida Salomao told Sputnik Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0Salomao, the impeachment, accusing the current Brazilian president of\u00a0fiscal law violations, is a clear case of\u00a0political retaliation for\u00a0Rousseff&#8217;s Workers Party&#8217;s vote in\u00a0the parliamentary Ethics Council to\u00a0continue the process against\u00a0Cunha charged in\u00a0August with\u00a0bribery and money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not only a crude revenge, but\u00a0also a clear abuse of\u00a0power,&#8221; Salomao said adding that Cunha is using his position to\u00a0protect himself from\u00a0investigation.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0Salomao, she believes that &#8220;a large part&#8221; of\u00a0Cunha&#8217;s Brazilian Democratic Movement Party will not support their fellow party member in\u00a0this process &#8220;devoid of\u00a0any credibility.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rousseff has been facing rising discontent over\u00a0the country&#8217;s struggling economy and a major corruption scandal in\u00a0the state-owned energy corporation Petrobras. Rousseff headed the company for\u00a0seven years, between\u00a02003 and 2010, the period during\u00a0which most of\u00a0the corruption reportedly took place.<\/p>\n<p>___________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Sputnik<\/em><em>, a major new media brand with modern multimedia centers in dozens of countries, was launched on November 10, 2014. Sputnik points the way to a multipolar world that respects every country\u2019s national interests, culture, history and traditions. Sputnik tells the untold. The agency is uniquely positioned as a provider of alternative news content and a radio broadcaster.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/sputniknews.com\/analysis\/20151203\/1031208523\/impeachment-rousseff-political-vengeance.html\" >Go to Original \u2013 sputiniknews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impeachment proceedings against Brazil\u2019s President launched by speaker of the lower house Eduardo Cunha is a matter of his personal vengeance, Deputy Leader of the Workers Party in the Brazilian parliament Margarida Salomao told Sputnik Thursday [3 Dec 2015].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}