Rousseff Allies Said to Jump Ship as Brazil Crisis Deepens
- PMDB party expected to declare independence on Saturday
- Party's legislators would be free to vote for impeachment
Former Brazilian President Lula Detained in Probe
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Senate leaders from Brazil’s biggest political party are pushing their colleagues in Congress to declare their independence from President Dilma Rousseff’s government, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions.
The leaders of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, or PMDB, discussed the strategy at a dinner Wednesday night with their counterparts from the opposition’s Brazilian Social Democracy Party, the people said, asking not be named because the talks were private.