A special commission established by the senate will vote next week on whether to continue with plans to remove the president. Sheâ??s not accused of personal corruption but of using money from state-owned banks to cover up shortfalls elsewhere in the nationâ??s budget.
Dilma Rouseff has called the impeachment a coup. Some supporters accuse a so-called â??Bible blockâ? in the senate of being behind the move. Theyâ??re referring to the growing power of Brazilâ??s protestant evangelicals in the politics of a country that was once 75 per cent Catholic.
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