Folha condemns Anastasia's maneuvers to accelerate the impeachment.
"However, the actions taken to alter the trial deadline are not justified. The special impeachment committee approved – reportedly with Temer's approval – a 20-day reduction in the process. The 15 days dedicated to the presentation of arguments by the prosecution and the defense would be reduced to five for each side," says an editorial in Folha de S.Paulo, by Otávio Frias Filho, aimed at shortening the deadlines of the process overseen by Antonio Anastasia (PSDB-MG).
247 - In the editorial Rites and expectationsIn the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper, Otávio Frias Filho condemns the maneuvers to shorten the defense deadlines and accelerate the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff.
"It will still be a considerable amount of time, however, before corrective measures in the economy produce visible effects on the lives of the population, although the investment and market environment has already cleared up in relative terms," the text says.It is therefore understandable why the Planalto Palace is in such a hurry to expedite the impeachment process against Dilma Rousseff (PT) in the Senate. With each misstep in these first weeks of the Temer government, the insecurity of the interim period takes its toll.
"However, the actions taken to alter the trial deadline are not justified. The special impeachment committee approved – reportedly with Temer's approval – a 20-day reduction in the process. The 15 days respectively dedicated to the presentation of arguments by the prosecution and the defense would be reduced to five for each side," the editorial continues.Although the opposing arguments are widely known, it is not advisable to alter the procedure prescribed by the Supreme Federal Court for Fernando Collor in 1992. This opens the door for yet another series of superficial challenges—demonstrating, moreover, new signs of awareness on the part of the interim government regarding its own vulnerability.