Cardozo: Talking about impeachment is 'democratic shamelessness'
According to the Minister of Justice, José Eduardo Cardozo, "the desire for a coup under the guise of apparent legality is reprehensible from a legal and ethical standpoint"; he denounces the use of "a plea bargain that has not even been made public [by Ricardo Pessoa, owner of the construction company UTC]" and "a process still underway at the TCU (Federal Court of Accounts)."
247 - The Minister of Justice, José Eduardo Cardozo, countered the opposition's call for the removal of President Dilma Rousseff. According to him, talking about impeaching the president is a "democratic outrage."
"It is a profound lack of democratic shame and an unbridled electoral revanchism to talk about impeaching the president, as some opposition parliamentarians have been doing," he said in an interview with 'Folha de S. Paulo'.
According to the minister, "the desire for a coup under the guise of apparent legality is reprehensible from both a legal and ethical standpoint."
He denounces the use of "a plea bargain that was never even made public [by Ricardo Pessoa, owner of the construction company UTC]" and "a process that is still underway at the TCU (Federal Court of Accounts)" – read here.