{"id":42,"date":"2016-09-02T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2016-09-02T14:42:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T14:42:11","slug":"brazils-former-president-dilma-rousseff-appeals-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2016\/09\/02\/brazils-former-president-dilma-rousseff-appeals-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil’s former President Dilma Rousseff appeals impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court against the Senate’s decision to dismiss her after an impeachment trial.<\/p>\n

More than two-thirds of the Senate voted on Wednesday to remove Ms Rousseff from office for illegally manipulating the budget two years ago.<\/p>\n

Hours after the vote her vice-president, Michel Temer, was sworn in.<\/p>\n

Ms Rousseff said the impeachment proceedings amounted to a coup d’etat.<\/p>\n

The proceedings against her in the Senate were flawed, said her lawyer, Jose Eduardo Cardozo.<\/p>\n

He requested “the immediate suspension of the effects of the Senate decision” and a new vote at the Senate.<\/p>\n

But analysts say Ms Rousseff’s appeal has very little chance of succeeding.<\/p>\n

‘New era of hope’<\/h2>\n

Mr Temer is in China, where he will take part in a summit of the G20 group of major economies.<\/p>\n

He was sworn in two hours after the Senate’s vote to dismiss Ms Rousseff, which ended 13 years in power of her left-wing Workers’ Party.<\/p>\n

Mr Temer will serve out Ms Rousseff’s term until 1 January 2019.<\/p>\n

The centre-right PMDB party politician had been serving as acting president during the impeachment proceedings.<\/p>\n

During his first cabinet meeting since the vote, Mr Temer said his inauguration marked a “new era of hope”.<\/p>\n

‘See you soon’<\/h2>\n

The dismissal of Ms Rousseff has caused a rift between Brazil and three left-wing South American governments that criticised the move later on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Brazil and Venezuela recalled each other’s ambassadors. Brazilian envoys to Bolivia and Ecuador have also been ordered home.<\/p>\n

Ms Rousseff lost the impeachment battle but won a separate Senate vote that had sought to ban her from public office for eight years.<\/p>\n

Pledging to appeal against her dismissal, she told her supporters: “I will not say goodbye to you. I am certain I can say: ‘See you soon.’<\/p>\n

Ms Rousseff was suspended in May after the Senate voted to go ahead with the impeachment process.<\/p>\n

She was accused of moving funds between government budgets, which is illegal under Brazilian law.<\/p>\n

Her critics said she was trying to plug deficit holes in popular social programmes to boost her chances of being re-elected in 2014.<\/p>\n

Ms Rousseff fought the allegations, arguing that her right-wing rivals had been trying to remove her from office ever since her re-election.<\/p>\n

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