Brazil’s public prosecutor asked the Supreme Court to suspend the lower house speaker from his activities as a legislator, in a move that may stall impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff.
Prosecutor-general Rodrigo Janot made the request Wednesday, saying Eduardo Cunha used his position for “personal benefit and illicit acts,” according to a statement from Janot’s office. Cunha told reporters in Brasilia the prosecutor’s move was “absurd” and an attempt to distract the country from the impeachment process.
The lower house speaker has become a leading foe of the administration this year and early this month opened impeachment proceedings against Rousseff. Since then the two politicians have traded barbs as they try to paint each other as dishonest.
Brazil Energy Insight 
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