A growing number of legislators in Brazil’s largest party see an impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff as an option to pull the country out of its deepening economic and political crisis.
One-third of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party in the lower house is working toward impeachment proceedings within a constitutional framework, said Darcisio Perondi, a deputy leader of the party, known as the PMDB. More legislators from the ruling coalition are now inclined to support impeachment, provided a legal argument is found, said a lawmaker from the alliance who asked not to be named because of the official leadership position he holds.
Only a few weeks ago most ruling coalition legislators skirted the issue of impeachment. The shift in attitude comes after Rousseff’s popularity dipped to a new low and a leading figure in her Workers’ Party was arrested on corruption charges. The government on Thursday was defeated on a spending bill in the lower house, hours after two parties abandoned the coalition and Vice President Michel Temer spoke of a “deepening” crisis.
Brazil Energy Insight 
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