Is it game over for Brazil’s first woman president?
Latin American nation’s lower house has voted in favour of the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff.
Thousands of protesters gathered outside Congress on Sunday, some in tears and some euphoric, as the votes were counted.
One MP dedicated his vote to a man who had tortured Rousseff under Brazil’s military government.
She faces accusations that she hid the extent of Brazil’s budget deficit during her re-election campaign in 2014.
Many who have voted against her in Congress are implicated in corruption scandals.
So is Rousseff truly a crook? Or just a scapegoat?
And if she leaves office, what’s next for Brazil?
Presenter: Hazem Sika
Guests:
Joao Paulo Peixoto – Political Scientist at the University of Brasilia.
Mark Langevin – Director of the Advisory Firm BrazilWorks.
Francisco Dominguez – Head of the Latin American Studies Research Group at Middlesex University.