BRASILIA : A Crisis Builds
The heads of Brazil’s national press and bar associations are to deliver a formal request today for the impeachment of President Fernando Collor de Mello on charges of profiting from corruption.
Collor’s opponents in the lower house say they will have the two-thirds majority needed to impeach him, but questions about legal procedures make it unclear when a vote might come. If impeached, Collor would be suspended from office for 180 days pending his trial by the Senate.
A special congressional commission said illicit funds from a multimillion-dollar influence-peddling scheme by Collor’s former campaign treasurer were used to pay the president’s household expenses.
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