Why is the president of brazil being impeached
Why Brazil's President Rousseff faces impeachment calls - BBC News
the beleaguered Brazilian president is
facing an almost perfect economic and
political storm for which a large
proportion of the population here blames
heard directly perhaps the biggest
crisis affecting her is a multi-billion
dollar corruption scandal focused on the
state-controlled oil giant Petrobras
Dilma Rousseff used to be chairman of
the board at Petrobras and although
unlike other senior politicians and
business leaders she has not been
directly implicated in the scandal it
has weakened her Authority and that of a
government and that is why many
Brazilians think she should either
resign or be impeached this is a
critical week for the president's
opponents in Congress as they try to
drum up the necessary two-thirds
majority to begin the impeachment
process but it's important to note
impeachment has nothing to do with the
aforementioned corruption scandal at the
state-controlled oil giant Petrobras
instead it is more focused on
allegations that Germa Rousseff somehow
manipulated government accounts to hide
the growing deficit and that is why the
president and his supporters say that
what is happening in Congress is nothing
more than an attempted coup against the
democratically elected government yes in
the last decade Brazil was the darling
of the developing world its economy
booming and millions brought out of
poverty thanks to innovative welfare
programs the country was awarded the
World Cup and the Olympic Games but
under Jim Ross F's second term in office
rising inflation and recession have
threatened many of those gains it's also
exposed many of brazil's
old divisions that never really went
away between north and south rich and
poor and along racial lines this feels
like a divided country with regular anti
and pro-government protests on the
streets of Rio sample and Brasilia these
are critical days for President Rousseff
and for South America's biggest and most
populous country
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