With Renan and Cunha on Janot's list, impeachment is over!
Who will vote to oust a president who is above suspicion and doesn't appear on any list?
I agree with 247's reasoning. It's crystal clear.
Investigations opened against Cunha and Renan, presidents of the two legislative houses, definitively bury the impeachment.
Ultimately, who will vote on the impeachment? The congressmen under suspicion?
In addition to the presidents of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, the leaders of the opposition parties are also on Janot's list.
Under these circumstances, who will vote to oust a president who is above suspicion and doesn't appear on any list?
Who knows, maybe now Dilma will finally get the peace she needs to start governing?
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Could a Congress under suspicion remove the president from office?
The collateral effect of the investigation requests presented by prosecutor Rodrigo Janot is the burial of any glimmer of hope related to the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff; an investigation request would have to be accepted by the Chamber of Deputies, presided over by Eduardo Cunha (PMDB-RJ), who is on Janot's list; a vote would then pass through the Senate, presided over by Renan Calheiros (PMDB-AL), who will also be the target of an inquiry; furthermore, after one of the opposition leaders, Senator Aécio Neves (PSDB-MG), called for caution, any anti-democratic adventure will lose credibility; impeachment is dead.
March 4, 2015 at 08:34 AM
247 – The question is simple and straightforward: with what moral authority can a Congress under suspicion forward a potential impeachment request against a president re-elected with 54 million votes less than three months ago?
Yes, this is a side effect of the requests for investigation submitted to the Supreme Federal Court by the Attorney General of the Republic, Rodrigo Janot. After all, the list includes none other than the presidents of the two legislative houses: the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Eduardo Cunha (PMDB-RJ), and the president of the Senate, Renan Calheiros (PMDB-AL).
Any potential impeachment request would have to be accepted by Cunha's Chamber of Deputies and voted on by Renan's Senate. Any decision made by anyone else in that direction would smack of retaliation. Furthermore, one of the main opposition leaders, Senator Aécio Neves (PSDB-MG), urged caution. If caution is needed regarding Eduardo Cunha and Renan Calheiros, even more so should it be exercised regarding President Dilma, who hasn't even been mentioned in the investigations.
Already anticipating that Janot's list would "democratize" the focus of the Petrobras scandal, 247 reported yesterday that the requests for investigation to the Supreme Court would give the PT and President Dilma a certain truce (read more here).
The impeachment is a closed chapter. The challenge now is to rebuild the political base in an environment marked by resentment and distrust.
- See more at: http://www.ocafezinho.com/2015/03/04/com-renan-e-cunha-na-lista-do-janot-impeachment-ja-era/#sthash.7qlxUckg.dpuf
* This is an opinion article, the responsibility of the author, and does not reflect the opinion of Brasil 247.