Rousseff Says Her Impeachment Amounts to Death Penalty
- She says evidence against her fabricated to justify power grab
- Rousseff: successor would bring more poverty, inequality
Brazil's Rousseff to Make Last Stand as Impeachment Looms
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Dilma Rousseff made an impassioned, personal plea to lawmakers preparing to vote on the suspended president’s ouster, calling her impeachment a political “death penalty” that puts the country’s democracy at risk.
In her first appearance in Congress since she was suspended in May, Rousseff recalled her fight against dictatorship and highlighted her social welfare policies. She repeated that the charges against her were manufactured by the country’s elite to take power after losing the 2014 presidential election and warned of more inequality if her successor, Michel Temer, were to be confirmed in office.