Brazil impeachment drive against Rousseff tips into chaos

May 09, 2016 22:31

The impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was thrown into confusion today when the speaker of the lower house of Congress annulled an April vote by lawmakers that launched the process.

Just days before the Senate seemed near certain to suspend Rousseff for six months and open an impeachment trial, the new leader of the lower house threw a spanner in the works by cancelling the vote that had got the entire process underway.

Waldir Maranhao, the interim speaker, wrote in an order seen by AFP that a new vote in the lower house should take place on whether to impeach Rousseff in five sessions time.

The cancellation of the vote was ordered in response to a request by Rousseff's solicitor general, who had challenged the legitimacy of the lower house vote.

However, it was not immediately clear how the chaotic new developments would unfold and whether pro-impeachment leaders would appeal to the Supreme Court to try and keep the process going.

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