MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Supreme Court of Brazil will consider a request on impeachment of acting President Michel Temer who assumed this post after impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, local media reported.
According to the TV Globo channel’s Tuesday report, Judge Marco Aurelio Mello said that he would submit a claim so that this motion will be reviewed by the court. Temer is reportedly being accused of crimes similar to those for which Rousseff was impeached.
Brazil's Senate voted 55-22 earlier this month to start impeachment proceedings against Rousseff after she was accused of concealing the country’s budget deficit ahead of the 2014 re-election. Rousseff called the impeachment process "a coup."
Rousseff has been facing a wave of public discontent for over a year amid the country’s struggling economy and a major corruption scandal in the state-controlled Petrobras oil company.
