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Weekly Report - 07 April 2016 (WR-16-13)
BRAZIL: Impeachment momentum stalls
On 6 April the newspaper O Estado de São Paulo published an assessment of the current attitudes of federal congressional deputies to impeachment. Two hundred and forty-five are reportedly in favour; 110 against; 58 are undecided; 11 did not wish to comment and 89 failed to respond. With around 10 days to go until a likely vote on whether to open impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff officially those in favour are well short of the 342 votes needed. But regardless of the outcome of the vote, scheduled for 17 April, neither side looks likely to back down.
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