Impeachment in Focus as Brazil Senate Breaks From Olympics
- Chamber decides by Wednesday whether to put Rousseff on trial
- The vote tally will help determine degree of Temer’s support
Leadership Limbo: Tackling Brazil's Corruption Problem
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The Brazilian Senate vote whether to put suspended President Dilma Rousseff on trial is shaping up to be a bellwether of her successor’s political clout.
The chamber is scheduled to start voting Tuesday night or early Wednesday whether to try Rousseff on charges of breaking the budget law. The session, which will help determine whether Acting President Michel Temer will hold onto the country’s reins, takes place just days after local media linked him and two of his cabinet members to illicit campaign contributions. All three deny wrongdoing and say financing was legal.