Comments on: Diane Abbott: Brazil’s coup is an assault on democracy

By: Diane Abbott: Brazil’s coup is an assault on democracy |

Diane Abbott: Brazil’s coup is an assault on democracy | — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 17:00:45 +0000

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By: Imran Khan

Imran Khan — Wed, 25 May 2016 18:48:20 +0000

It looks like censorship has arrived at Left Foot Forward. No criticism of Diane Abbott allowed it seems.

By: Why Diane Abbott was right to put a coup in the world’s fourth largest democracy back on the British progressive political agenda – Hub Politic

Wed, 25 May 2016 10:22:38 +0000

[…] The shocking overthrow of democracy a fortnight ago in the world’s fourth largest democratic nation has been placed full square on the British progressive political agenda – thanks to the very necessary intervention of both the TUC and Diane Abbott. […]

By: ad

ad — Tue, 24 May 2016 22:06:23 +0000

The startling fact is that, while more than 50 million Brazilians voted to re-elect Dilma Rousseff as their president in 2014, it took only 55 senators to take the decision to remove her.

Millions of Americans voted to re-elect Richard Nixon, so presumeably it was outrageous to impeach him, too.

Or is it only left-wing Presidents who should be above the law?

By: James Kemp

James Kemp — Tue, 24 May 2016 12:59:31 +0000

Sorry there Both bent from what i can see her running mate the lats prime minister is up to his neck in many charges of corruption and is being also actively sort to stand trial. There was a rule that if your the top 2 you could not stand trial. There is alleged a deal to protect each other, they thought they were safe until the mass unrest. Why should corruption be allowed to stand just because there a woman and elected?

It was extensively covered by Chanel 4 news so i don’t see it wasn’t covered by the new gathers maybe watch a news program that’s not biased like ITV / BBC news (IMHO)

By: Christopher Black

Christopher Black — Tue, 24 May 2016 00:14:22 +0000

The impeachment process does not substitute another party for Rousseff’s. It just suspends her from acting as President. It does not annul the elections that gave her party power. The actions of the interim President must be illegal, unconstitutional under Brazilian law but I do not see any analyst saying so. Can someone comment?

By: George Kendall

George Kendall — Mon, 23 May 2016 18:24:14 +0000

I’m not sure Diane Abbot is telling us the whole story about Brazil. She says “it took only 55 senators to take the decision to remove” Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.

From what I’ve read, it took 367 out of 513 of the lower house, a rejected appeal to the Supreme Court, and 55 out of 81 senators. And they haven’t removed her, they have suspended her. The Acting President is her running mate, Michel Temer.

Diane also doesn’t give the context. The collapse of the finances of the government, see:
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/brazil/government-budget

The accusation is that she tampered with the accounts to help secure her re-election in 2014.

Is she innocent? I don’t know. But she had clearly lost the confidence of the lower house, if over two thirds voted to suspend her.

By: richard irons

richard irons — Mon, 23 May 2016 15:53:15 +0000

An excellent article – we need a much bigger global outcry at 54 million Brazilian votes being ignored !