Thursday, September 1, 2016 Democracy or hypocrisy? But leaving this institutional debate aside, if this impeachment is to be judged according to its Spanish meaning of “political trial,” the politics are all wrong — the purest hypocrisy. Rousseff was ousted yesterday by a 61-20 Senate vote on charges of a budget-juggling which has been practised by every Brazilian government. In order to remove Rousseff from power without disqualifying themselves, the politicians in the coalition assembled by caretaker Michel Temer (hastily inaugurated president yesterday) impeached Rousseff solely according to budgetary irregularities completely unrelated to the public anger. Just to underline the total hypocrisy, Rousseff was removed from power yesterday without the suspension of political rights normally accompanying such a grave step.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald September 01, 2016 04:47 UTC