A Senate committee voted to prosecute Brazil’s suspended president Dilma Rousseff in order to decide her deposition. The result is 14-5 in favor of the prosecution.
But the real question is: what’s next?
To reach the final sentence, the committee must be endorsed by 81 senators on Tuesday, in a session that will take place during the largest global sporting event: the Games of the XXXI Olympiad.
If at that time a functional majority of senators choose to continue to the indictment, Rousseff will be a voting process away from losing her mandate.
Rousseff, who accuses her former vice-president of betrayal and denounces a coup d’état against her, is accused of violating the Constitution by approving expenditures without the permission of Congress and signing decrees to finance the Treasury with public banks. Both offenses can end her presidency and can unable her to hold any public office within the next eight years.
A great number of congressmen and analysts think that Rouseff has few possibilities to keep her mandate. However, a great protest against Temer, Brazil’s acting president, is planned on Friday in Maracanã Stadium, during Río 2016 opening ceremony.
Amid the deepening political crisis, Brazilians are upset due to the cost of the Games, poor public services, the recession affecting the country and the corruption scandals that involve almost all parties and business elite.