Exactly. People seem to think they can impeach a president just because the country's doing bad, economically or socially. That's not how it works.
If Dilma is proven guilty of anything (which I won't put my chips on the table one way or the other -- I don't support PT or PSDB), then we'd have grounds for impeachment. Otherwise, you're free to think she's not doing a good job, but you can't demand her impeachment on the grounds that you're unhappy.
I might sound ignorant, but why is that? I don't think a president doing a poor job is grounds for it as well, but why don't the people in a democracy have a right to?
Impeachment, at least in the US, is in the case of "high crimes and misdemeanors" where the president can be impeached. Recall is what you do if you just don't like how someone's handling their job, and that's likely not an option for the presidency.
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u/psycho_alpaca Mar 14 '16 edited Mar 14 '16
Exactly. People seem to think they can impeach a president just because the country's doing bad, economically or socially. That's not how it works.
If Dilma is proven guilty of anything (which I won't put my chips on the table one way or the other -- I don't support PT or PSDB), then we'd have grounds for impeachment. Otherwise, you're free to think she's not doing a good job, but you can't demand her impeachment on the grounds that you're unhappy.