The debate over President Dilma Rousseff’s political survival intensified as lawmakers for the second time this month debated impeachment, clashing over the rules of a process that hasn’t been carried out in Brazil since 1992.
Lawmakers disagreed Thursday whether Rousseff can be impeached for misdeeds allegedly carried out in her previous term. Lower house President Eduardo Cunha said he wouldn’t turn down an impeachment request based on events that occurred during her first four years in office.
Congressman Wadih Damous, a member of the ruling Workers’ Party, said that would be unconstitutional. An impeachment of Rousseff on such grounds would be “a major violation of democracy,” he said during the discussion on the house floor.
Brazil Energy Insight 
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