Social and intellectual movements, unions, heads of universities and technical institutes and lawyers expressed their rejection to the attempts by lawmakers to prosecute Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. Through manifestos, statements and preparation of protests, these associations and professionals expressed their support for democracy and rejected the claims of conservative sectors to stop Rousseff's mandate, which began in January.
Social and intellectual movements, unions, heads of universities and technical institutes and lawyers expressed their rejection to the attempts by lawmakers to prosecute Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. Through manifestos, statements and preparation of protests, these associations and professionals expressed their support for democracy and rejected the claims of conservative sectors to stop Rousseff's mandate, which began in January
The national president of the Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT), Vagner Freitas, announced yesterday an agreement between unions and social groups of different tendencies to march together on December 16 against the purposes of reactionary blocks in Congress to dismiss the president.
We will go to the streets of Sao Paulo to defend the mandate of the President, which means the continuation of social programs and other conquests achieved by workers in the last 13 years, said Freitas.
The mobilization will also have the aim of demanding the dismissal of the head of the Chamber of Deputies, Eduardo Cunha and will express the rejection to the plans of cuts of the federal executive, it was added.
Accompanied by leaders of several Brazilian organizations, he said they expect to make the largest mobilization of the Brazilian left wing.
A political trial without legal basis, motivated by opportunistic and vindictive reasons, is a blow, said Carina Vitral, head of the National Union of Students.
In addition to these movements, rectors of 41 universities and institutes delivered a letter to the head of the Civil House, Ricardo Berzoini, in which they expressed their support to Rousseff and repudiate the opening of judicial proceedings against her.
Berzoini also received expressions of support to the Brazilian Presidennt, which brings together a hundred social, popular and women organizations as well as political parties.
Lawyers and intellectuals also disseminated separately manifests in which the attempts of a parliamentary coup against Rousseff were rejected, and it is demanded respect for democracy and the cessation of the authority of the Lower Chamber.
Source: PL