Rousseff Impeachment Talk Has Ally Saying Rivals Flirt With Coup
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Renewed calls for the impeachment of Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff over a corruption scandal at state-run Petroleo Brasileiro SA prompted a retort from her party that the opposition was “flirting with a coup.”
The blast from the ruling Workers’ Party came after an opinion piece in the country’s most-read newspaper argued that there are already grounds to start the impeachment process, and a report that the op-ed had been requested by a lawyer who represents former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso of the opposition Brazilian Social Democracy Party.