Brazil President Dilma Rousseff faces impeachment

Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff faces a likely suspension from office in few weeks time. Rousseff is facing impeachment as a result of the Latin American Country plunge into political furnace.Rousseff is claiming to be the victim of a coup d'etat.....

On May 11 or 12 the Senate is expected to vote to open an impeachment trial on charges that Rousseff illegally manipulated government accounts.

She would be automatically suspended and replaced by Vice President Michel Temer, the head of Brazil's main center-right party and once a coalition ally of Rousseff before -- in her words -- turning "traitor."

A definitive Senate vote on Rousseff's fate could take months, but unless she was cleared, she would never come back and her nemesis would stay in power until the next scheduled elections in 2018.

On Sunday, Rousseff railed against "the coup" and told union supporters of her Workers' Party that she would "fight to the end."
However, with the Senate vote to suspend her looking near certain, she appears resigned -- at the very minimum -- to the humiliating prospect of having to abandon her executive offices, called the Palacio do Planalto, in just over a week.
"She has ordered the drawers to be cleaned out," Folha daily said Sunday.

And it isn't just filing cabinets that will be looking for a new home. Her Workers' Party ministers and what Folha calls "a sea" of government employees are likely soon to be sending out job resumes.
Ten days from the Senate vote on impeachment "nothing about the routine in the Palacio do Planalto resembles the resistance announced by social movements under the cry of 'No to the coup!'," Estadao daily commented Sunday.
"In offices at the seat of government, functionaries are already packing their things."

Once suspended, Rousseff will hunker down at the presidential residence on half pay.
From there she will attempt to persuade senators that the accounting tricks she is accused of do not amount to an impeachable offense and that the whole procedure is a political, not legal assault -- an argument rejected last month by the lower house of Congress.
The stakes for Brazilian politics could not be higher.