Posted on 04/17/2016 5:42:27 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Supporters of the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff took a commanding lead in a ballot in the lower house of Congress on Sunday that could hasten the end of 13 years of leftist Workers Party rule in Latin America's biggest economy.
With 272 votes cast, 210 members of Congress had voted in favor of Rousseff's impeachment and 62 voted against or abstained. The Datafolha polling group projected Rousseff's defeat.
Rousseff's opponents needs votes from 342 of the 513 members of the chamber to send her for trial in the Senate on charges of manipulating budgetary accounts to support her 2014 re-election.
If Rousseff, Brazil's first female president, loses Sunday's vote, the Senate must decide by a simple majority whether there are legal grounds to hear the case against her, a decision expected in early May.
Should it agree to do so, Rousseff, 68, would be suspended from office and Vice President Michel Temer would take over
(Excerpt) Read more at kdal610.com ...
LIVE FEED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-u2jD7W3yU
Every legislator is getting to make a short statement before they announce each vote. Lots of shouting.
How come Brazil can impeach and USA can’t?
285 in favor of Impeachment as of now.
342 needed.
We sit and watch instead of doing, we would rather let a low life loser destroy our country before our very eyes because we are afraid of being called a racist, we are truly sick
Does Brazil have RINOs like we have.
“...How come Brazil can impeach and USA can’t?...”
Because all our congress critters belong to the same party he does: The UniParty. Secretly, they love the guy.
Corruption needs expelled and exterminated whether it come from the left or right. Partisans think that it comes only from the other side.
Nice to see the spark of resistance to the the socialist corrupt governments happening around the world. Trump effect?
“Because all our congress critters belong to the same party he does: The UniParty. Secretly, they love the guy.”
In America the establishment owns the politicians, both Parties, the media, and Wall St and our Congress critters react to the puppet strings accordingly with policies that put them first and America last. Follow the money and bribes and you will follow corruption
No matter the outcome, Corruption will continue to rule Brazil.
Brazil is blessed with resources unlike any county besides the USA, but Brazil through dictatorships and misguided democracy has squandered its chance to enter the realm of first world nations.
Thanks for the link. Count is now 301 for, 99 against with 4 abstentions. Total Count: 404 with 109 votes remaining.
315 si
If this is like U.S. government, they’ll give her a raise and put her in charge of government ethics and accounting.
Livestream of impeachment voting in Brazil. . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-u2jD7W3yU
I vote yes = Eu voto sim
I vote no = Eu voto não
EU VOTO SIM!!!
Only THREE more votes needed for impeachment.
The lefties are hysterical on twitter. Ha ha.
341
It’s official.
The SOROS-backed Socialist has been impeached.
So what happens now? They gonna get a rope? LOL.
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