Brazil's
President Dilma Rousseff vowed to fight "until the last day"
on Friday after a special commission in the Senate recommended that
an impeachment trial be opened against her. The special commission
voted 15-5 to approve a report that concluded there was enough
evidence to proceed with a trial against Rousseff over the alleged
fiscal manipulations in 2014 and 2015.
In a speech
given at the Planalto presidential palace, Rousseff denied the
allegations, insisting that she has not committed any crime. "I
am the living proof that a coup is being orchestrated against all
advances made in the last 13 years," said the president.
She vowed to
resist, despite the fact that a vote in the Senate on May 11 is seen
as highly likely to formally open an impeachment trial, forcing her
to step down for up to 180 days. Rousseff also addressed the decision
by the Supreme Court on Thursday to suspend Eduardo Cunha, the
president of the Chamber of Deputies, who began the impeachment
process against her in December.
Cunha is
facing graft charges from a corruption probe at Brazil's state oil
company. "It took a person void of any moral and ethical
principles, accused of money laundering and hidden accounts, to
perpetrate this coup," she said.
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