The
Senate Committee in charge of the impeachment process against
suspended president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, approved a report
Thursday that recommends continuing with the impeachment process
which ultimately seeks her permanent dismissal.
Rousseff
recently said it is illegitimate that the Senate will seek to end her
presidency without any proof of illegality, or evidence of corruption
during her time as president.
"They
have turned my life upside down and they haven’t found anything to
connect me to corruption, and they haven’t found any bank accounts
in Switzerland,” said Rousseff to El Mundo.
The
report, written by the rapporteur of the special committee Antonio
Anastasia, accuses Dilma of "violating the Constitution."
The
text was approved by 14 votes with 5 voting against and one
abstention from the commission's President Raimundo Lira, who only
votes in the case of a tie.
The
final vote to decide on Rousseff’s impeachment is scheduled for
next Tuesday. The Senate will only need 54 of the 81 votes from its
members for the legal process to continue.
If
the committee rules that Rousseff is guilty, Temer will continue to
rule Brazil. If acquitted, Rousseff will be reinstated into the
presidency and Temer will return to the vice presidency position.
Analysts believe the latter would resign before holding that
position.
Rousseff
has branded the senate-imposed interim president Temer a "traitor"
and "thief" and accused him of "conspiring" in
the coup attempt. Last week, she also announced she would not be
attending the Olympic Games inauguration ceremony scheduled for
August 5.
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