President suffers damaging setback as committee sets stage for full vote in lower house of Congress later this weekBrazil’s president Dilma Rousseff began a week that could invent or shatter her administration with a bruising defeat in a Congressional impeachment committee.
After a bad-natured and at times chaotic debate, the members on the committee voted 38 to 27 to proceed with a motion to remove the Workers’ party leader from office for puffing up government accounts before the 2014 election.
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Source: theguardian.com