The impeachment of Dilma Rousseff have one of its most important moments on Monday, when the removed president testifies before the plenary of the Federal Senate to defend Brazilian democracy, according to her.
The impeachment of Dilma Rousseff will have one of its most important moments on Monday, when the removed president will testify before the plenary of the Federal Senate to defend Brazilian democracy, according to her.
Failing to appear 'would mean to surrender democracy', said the ex president a few days ago. She also expressed her hope that justice will be done, because 'it would be an aberration to condemn an innocent person'.
Rousseff was accused of an alleged offense of liability for authorizing three budget supplementary decrees without approval by Congress and for overdue payments to the Bank of Brazil by concept of subsidies granted to rural producers as part of the Zafra Plan.
In a written statement submitted to the Impeachment Procedural Committee of the Upper House on July 6, Dilma rejected the accusation, which she described as 'inappropriate, unacceptable and deeply unfair'.
Never before, in any democratic country, the legitimate mandate of a president was interrupted by routine acts of budgetary management, underlined Dilma, who has repeated that if she is definitely removed from her post, Brazil would be in the presence of an unmistakable coup d'état followed by an indirect election.
In such a case, the electoral college of 110 million Brazilians would be replaced, without due constitutional foundation, by a college of 81 senators.
Source; PL