Brazil is experiencing an unprecedented moment in its history with
the removal of the elected President Dilma Rousseff. Her replacement
vice-president Michel Temer will be head of state during the impeachment
process and maybe even longer.
Jacques Wagner was for a short time Dilma Rousseff’s right-hand man.
The former chief of staff who left government to make way for Lula.
Michel Santos spoke to him about the impeachment process and the future.
Michel Santos “Jacques Wagner you have said it was a coup in Brazil”.
Jacques Wagner: “Indeed, what we are living through in Brazil is a
coup. I call it a “coup” because they used the constitutional provision
of impeachment to make an indirect election. The world saw the session
in the lower chamber – the Chamber of Deputies – and the admissibility
session in the Senate and none or very few spoke of crime, because the
president has committed no crime.
‘So they used a constitutional provision for something that is
sacred in democracy – which is the delegation by vote – to usurp the
power of an elected president with 54 million votes.
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Source: euronews.
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