Brazil’s Impeachment: Who Are the Swing Voters in Congress, And What Do They Want?
Brazil’s Impeachment: Who Are the Swing Voters in Congress, And What Do They Want?
Dilma Rousseff has the support to block impeachment – for now.
Proceedings to oust Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff have been underway for a week, and the battle lines are becoming clear. Rousseff appears to have enough support among the 28 parties in Congress to block impeachment over her alleged misuse of public funds. But that could change. Rousseff’s fate will ultimately rest in the hands of several small and relatively new parties, all of which have their own political futures to consider.
“They just move according to the money,” says Gabriel Petrus, a political consultant at Brasília-based Barral M Jorge & Associates, who formerly...
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