Dilma: impeachment process was born of “blatant misuse of power” – Daily News – Lisbon

Dilma Rousseff claimed to be the subject of an injustice

The President of Brazil with suspended term, Dilma Rousseff said today in the Senate (High parliamentary chamber) that his dismissal process is marked by “blatant misuse of power.”

“This process is marked from beginning to end by a clamorous misuse of powers (. ..) became current state that process is lawful because it respects the legal rites. the way is not enough, there must be reason, “said Rousseff, the assistance in his defense before the Senate.

Dilma Rousseff stressed that there was misuse of powers because the process was started by Eduardo Cunha, then President of the House of Representatives, which accepted the complaint against it after seeing thwarted personal interests.

Another part listed grounds for the misuse of powers would, according to Dilma, the fact that the complaint is based on an opinion of the Court of Audit (TCU), formulated with the prosecutor’s aid Julio Marcelo de Oliveira, who then examined and approved the same document pointing alleged irregularities in the accounts government it.

Julio Marcelo de Oliveira was the main witness for the prosecution, but was eventually heard at trial only as declaring a conflict of interest, since those facts only on the day he presented his testimony were brought to the attention of the President of the Supreme Court, who heads the impeachment process in the Senate

in another point in his speech, Dilma Rousseff claimed to be the subject of an injustice, it did not commit a crime committed -. practice tax maneuvers in order to improve public accounts and signing decrees authorizing not in the budget expenditure – and that “never” renounce the position and that is the target of a coup d’état

“. we are one step closer to achieving a constitutional rupture, a real coup, “he said.

the head of state with suspended mandate also considered that is targeted for impeachment because his government bucked interests political and economic elite of Brazil, adding that this elite had its preferred candidate, Aécio Neves, defeated in the presidential election.