While the threat against President Dilma Rousseff in terms of the impeachment proceedings in the federal lower chamber of congress may be receding, developments this week raise the possibility that it is the challenge to her mandate in the supreme electoral court (TSE) that may prove more serious. On 22 February, João Santana, the political marketing guru who helped to engineer Rousseff’s two electoral victories, as well as Lula da Silva’s 2006 campaign, was accused by federal police of taking money from a company connected to the corruption scandal afflicting the state oil company Petrobras. Aécio Neves, the defeated presidential candidate from the Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB), swiftly announced plans to add the evidence against Santana to the case against Rousseff at the TSE.End of preview - This article contains approximately 662 words.
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