MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Late on Sunday, Brazil's lower house lawmakers voted in favor of impeaching President Rousseff, sending the vote to the upper chamber known as the Federal Senate.
"This is a new type of a coup d’etat which exploits legal sophistry," Javier Couso said.
According to Couso, this is an "attack on the separation of powers in Brazil."
"Most of the lawmakers who support impeachment of Dilma are being investigated for crimes," the parliamentarian stressed.
The Brazilian president 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-owned Petrobras petroleum company.
