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Weekly Report - 23 July 2015 (WR-15-29)

Troubles mount for Brazil’s Rousseff

Rock-bottom approval ratings, an economy in recession and an increasingly hostile congress are not on their own sufficient to initiate impeachment proceedings against Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff. However, they make the conditions for such a process more likely. In another bad week for Rousseff, her mentor and predecessor, Lula da Silva (2003-2011), faced a criminal investigation; an opinion poll found that just 7.7% of Brazilians approved of her administration; the government was forced to revise down its fiscal surplus target (with the domestic economy now predicted to shrink by 1.49% this year), and the speaker of the federal lower chamber of congress, Eduardo Cunha, declared his open opposition to the executive.

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