Brazilian Senate ousts President Dilma Rousseff

Q.  Which nation’s president was impeached following a massive corruption scandal and brutal economic crisis?
- Published on 02 Sep 16

a. Brazil
b. Paraguay
c. Uruguay
d. Argentina

ANSWER: Brazil
 
Brazilian Senate ousts President Dilma RousseffBrazil’s Senate impeached President Dilma Rousseff in what is the biggest scandal that polarised Latin America’s biggest country amid massive corruption scandal and brutal economic crisis.
  • Senators voted 61-20 o convict the first female president of the nation to use money from state banks for illegal bankroll public spending.
  • Rousseff’s opponens hailed her removal
  • Michel Temer who ran Brazil since her May suspension, has been appointed the President through to 2018
  • The first televised address to the nation by Temer worked to battle fiscal crisis and record unemployment- Brazil’s unemployment rate is over 11 percent
  • The country has slid into its deepest recession in decades and the Petrobras scandal has tarnished the coalition led by Rousseff.
  • Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador withdrew their ambassadors following the impeachment.
  • In an unprecedented move however, the senate 42-36 allowed Rousseff to retain the right to hold public office a break with Brazilian laws which hold that a dismissed president cannot hold a government job for 8 years

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