Brazil’s government has fine-tuned arguments aimed at defending President Dilma Rousseff from a ruling that her administration manipulated federal accounts last year, and expects Congress to approve them, Chief of Staff Jaques Wagner said on Wednesday.
The Federal Accounts Court, or TCU, last month said the government had manipulated its accounts in 2014 to disguise a widening fiscal deficit as Rousseff, a leftist, campaigned for re-election, and recommended lawmakers reject the figures.
The ruling, the TCU’s first against a Brazilian president in nearly 80 years, was not legally binding but it provided ammunition for opposition lawmakers to push for impeachment proceedings against Rousseff in an increasingly hostile Congress.
Rousseff’s government has prepared its defense using “basically” the same arguments it had presented to the TCU, with a few modifications, Wagner told reporters in Brasilia. He did not provide details.
Brazil Energy Insight 
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