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In Brazil, fishy struggle between Rousseff, opposition: Analyst

Friday, 03 June 2016 5:52 PM [ Last Update: Friday, 03 June 2016 5:53 PM ]

Supporters of suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff protest against interim president Michel Temer, in Sao Paulo, Brazil on June 01, 2016. (Photo by AFP)

Press TV has conducted an interview with Ramin Vahidzadeh, a political commentator from Tehran, about the political strife between main parties in Brazil and the future of the elected president, Dilma Rousseff, who has been replaced by Michel Temer.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: How serious is the situation getting in Brazil? How will Rousseff be able to fight her charges?

Vahidzadeh: The seriousness is quite serious, because she needs to survive the mandate that has been taken away from her. She is right now negotiating with the senators to get their votes. She needs up to 28 votes in the Senate in the impeachment process to be solved in her favor. So right now she has the lack of six senators, based on what the senators are talking about two of them right now have retrieved their votes from Mr. Temer. So right now she has to fight for four votes in the Senate.

The situation is very complicated, because we saw that after the first vote on the suspension Mr. Temer’s ministers have been suspended and have been forced to resign because of their talking about this impeachment process. Two of them were saying that this process is good for them because it can block the investigation about the corruption that Ms. Rousseff was going on against Temer and the opposition.

So here something is actually smelling fishy that the two sides somehow are involved in this scandal. She needs to secure the vote and right now we are seeing that Mr. Temer is also going in a curious way. He has suggested that the process should end before the Olympics, which means up to 5 of the August, but we had the process going on until November.

There is a very fishy scenario here. Two sides are going against each other and both are claiming that they have evidence that supports corruption is based on the other side.

So she needs to negotiate and some key figures like footballists like Romario, which is right now in the Senate, could be a key role for Ms. Rousseff. He had voted in favor of Temer but right now she is negotiating with him to get his vote and other votes to survive her mandate.

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