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RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA. — Hundreds of women rallied in front of the Planalto Palace, the government headquarters, in Brasilia on Tuesday in support of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and against her impeachment.
They bore red and white roses as well as signs calling for the president to stay.
President Rousseff met several leaders of the women’s rally in the palace and left the building to personally greet the demonstrators, many of whom travelled from other states to show their support. The president reaffirmed her stance that the impeachment process against her lacks legal basis.
“Those who intend to replace me did not receive these 54 million votes, and they are trying to make an indirect election disguised as impeachment,” she said.
Meanwhile, the Brazilian Senate President Renan Calheiros has announced that a special Senate commission, tasked with assessing the impeachment against President Rousseff, would be voted in on April 25 and begin working the next day.
The lower house of parliament’s approval to proceed with President Rousseff’s impeachment Sunday put pressure on Calheiros to declare a timetable for the Senate’s next move, while Calheiros cautioned that “we are not seeking to make news every day, we are making history.”
The Senate will name the members of the commission on April 26, with the majority Brazilian Democratic Movement Party holding five seats, the Workers’ Party, to which President Rousseff belongs, and the opposition Brazilian Social Democracy Party holding four seats, and other parties dividing the eight remaining seats. —Xinhua.
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