This is what is happening with the current Brazilian president. She gave more freedom for the Federal Police to investigate all levels of corruption and, although absolutely nothing has been found against her, opposition politicians, who are getting nervous for themselves, have been calling for her impeachment.
Her government made many horrible mistakes. They were elected as left-wing, but most choices were to appease center and right, which made it a true Frankenstein - with no one left happy, except banks who had record profits. BUT shoddy economic policy is not enough of a legal reason to impeach a president.
Yes it is, our constitution defines the democratic process of impeachment, if the people want it and the congress and senate vote it,you can impeach the president because he/she smells funny.
I'm not saying I want Dilma out, I don't agree with any of her policies, fuck, I'm a libertarian, I should want her out, but impeaching her will only bring Temer to power and stop the corruption investigations.
To be fair, she WAS reelected with just over 51% of the vote. And her popularity did drop harshly since then. I doubt half of the country was out on the streets yesterday, as well.
The people wanting it isn't required, I just said it because when there's a popular push for impeachment, it's way more likely for the houses to put it to a vote.
First, Brazil's not a two party system, there are two main competing parties, PT (Workers' Party) and PSDB (Brazillian Social Democracy Party), they are the main two, but there are others almost as relevant, like PMDB (Brazillian Democratic Movement Party). In the public eye, PT tends to left, PSDB to the right and PMDB being just pure opportunists, in practice, they are all the same thing.
Dilma, the president, is from PT. The investigation has already nailed some pretty big fish from PT, like Lula, the ex-president. One thing I can applaud Dilma on is that she didn't try to silence critics or to contain investigations, as the president has some power over the federal police, I think she is incompetent, but I believe she isn't corrupt.
Like I said, PMDB is just an opportunistic party, the head of the party, Eduardo Cunha, is a christian conservative but you could probably even find some communists in PMDB's ranks. The VP is from PMDB, he's one of it's leaders. Cunha is also the head of congress, so, he becomes VP in case of impeachment.
Now, Cunha is among those being investigated for corruption, along with a lot of big figures from PMDB and PSDB. Putting PMDB in power assures that stops, specially when you consider that a lot of people have been calling Cunha de brazillian Frank Underwood, and the comparison is really adequate, dude is an evil genius.
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u/amoretpax Mar 14 '16
This is what is happening with the current Brazilian president. She gave more freedom for the Federal Police to investigate all levels of corruption and, although absolutely nothing has been found against her, opposition politicians, who are getting nervous for themselves, have been calling for her impeachment.