MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Monday, Brazil's lower house committee, tasked with evaluating a report recommending that Rousseff be put on impeachment trial in the country's upper house, voted in favor of the move.
"The government will fight to the last minute of the last half [of a sports match] for something that we believe is possible, that is to win against this coup attempt that they are trying to bestow on us through a fraudulent report," Rousseff told reporters as quoted by the Novo Jornal publication.
Rousseff has been facing a wave of public discontent for over a year amid Brazil’s struggling economy and a major corruption scandal in the state-owned Petrobras petroleum company. Lower house lawmakers supported impeachment procedures against Rousseff early last December.
In late March, the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party left the governing coalition, leaving the president with even fewer allies.
