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Weekly Report - 9 July 2015 (WR-15-27)

BRAZIL: Rousseff and opposition trade coup-mongering claims

“I am not going to fall. This is a political battle. People fall when they are ready to quit. I’m not.” In an interview with O Folha de São Paulo, which took place straight after the party conference of the opposition Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB), President Dilma Rousseff came out fighting. With Rousseff’s approval ratings still bumping along the bottom, further claims linking her to the scandal surrounding the state oil company Petrobras, and possible censure from both Brazil’s financial ombudsman, the Tribunal de Contas da União (TCU), and its supreme electoral court (TSE), the opposition is doing its upmost to increase her discomfort.

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