Brazilian President recommended for impeachment

The Committee of the lower house of the Brazilian parliament, created in connection with the procedure to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, has recommended her dismissal. In December 2015, the opposition launched a parliamentary impeachment process against Rousseff. Officially, she is accused of being involved in schemes of corruption in “Petrobras”, the state oil company. However, the real reasons for the attempted ousting of the president is Brazil’s independent foreign policy and the country's active role in BRICS.

Background of the problem

The current phase of the confrontation between the pro-American opposition and Brazil's leadership was launched in September 2015. Millions of people across the country participated in rallies both supporting and opposing the incumbent president. Dilma was accused of being involved in the Petrobras corruption scandal, as well as violations of tax and financial fraud during the 2014 election campaign.

The main role in the campaign against Rousseff is played by opposition leaders: former presidential candidate from the opposition Aécio Neves (Brazilian Social Democratic Party) and former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso (Brazilian Social Democratic Party). Despite its name, the opposition is strongly influenced by neoliberalism and the fundamentals of the American market.

Earlier, the former ally of Rousseff, the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), withdrew from the coalition government, thereby increasing the chances of the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff. This party has no clear ideological orientation, and in its ranks are both leftists and liberals. It is under these circumstances that the Democrats intend to seize power in the country. In the event of Rousseff’s impeachment, leader of the PMDB Michel Temer, who has been the Vice-President of Brazil since 2011, will automatically become President.

The geopolitical context

The main foreign power that is interested in the ousting of Dilma Rousseff is the United States, which seeks to regain control of Latin America. To do this, they seek to subdue the two key powers on the continent: Argentina and Brazil. In Argentina, they have already brought the stooge liberal Mauricio Macri to power; now it's Brazil’s turn. This situation is reminiscent of the shift in the geopolitical balance in Europe in the 2000’s. Once the "Paris-Berlin-Moscow” axis emerged in 2003, the US did its best to change the situation and sought to sweep Nicolas Sarkozy in France and Angela Merkel in Germany into power.

The chances of impeachment

The procedure of impeachment is no more than a planned coup and an attack on democratic legitimacy. According to the laws and constitution, the country's president can be dismissed only if the offense is proven to have occurred, which in this instance it has not.

The decisive vote across the lower chamber of the Parliament in the case of the Brazilian Rousseff is to be held the following Sunday, or it will be postponed until Monday. If two-thirds of the deputies vote for the impeachment, the case will be submitted to the Senate, which may send the President to court and remove her from power. According to the Brazilian newspaper Estadao, from the 513 deputies of the lower house, 298 people pronounced themselves in favor of the removal of the president from power, while the necessary number is 342.

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Brazilian President recommended for impeachment