Half of Brazilians hope interim President Michel Temer to continue serving while nearly a third of them want suspended President Dilma Rousseff to return, a poll said Sunday.
A former Brazilian minister from Brazil's suspended President Dilma Rousseff's Workers' Party (PT) was arrested Thursday in a police operation as part of the investigation into the Petrobras corruption ring, official sources said.
Brazil's interim government has concluded its first month in power with a cascade of scandals, which may undermine its reform plans and increase the suspended President Dilma Rousseff's chances of returning to power.
The defense team for Brazil's suspended President Dilma Rousseff announced Friday that they will file four petitions to the Supreme Federal Court concerning the impeachment process against her.
Brazil's interim President Michel Temer said Friday he may stay in the current position until 2019.Temer took over the presidency Thursday from Brazil's first female President Dilma Rousseff, who was suspended from office for 180 days.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who was suspended Thursday to face an impeachment trial, warned that the impeachment movement threatened key government welfare programs and recently-discovered deep-sea oil deposits.
Brazilian Vice President Michel Temer on Thursday signed a Senate notice promoting him to acting president, after lawmakers voted to open impeachment proceedings against suspended President Dilma Rousseff.
The impeachment process against Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is part of a prolonged crisis in the country since she won the presidential election in 2014.
Brazil's Supreme Court Wednesday dismissed the government's motion to annul impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff.
Brazil's lower house on Monday announced a decision to nullify the chamber's vote on impeachment against President Dilma Rousseff, while the Senate decided to move forward and vote on the process on Wednesday as planned.
Two of Brazil's labor movements held various actions on Thursday rejecting the impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff, according to news magazine, Veja.
The Brazilian Senate's special commission on the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff approved on Tuesday at its first meeting that it would vote on May 6 on whether the process should continue or not.
The Brazilian Senate on Monday elected a special impeachment commission, which will analyze the case against President Dilma Rousseff starting on April 26, the commission said.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will travel to New York on Friday for the signing ceremony of the UN Paris Agreement on climate change, her office announced Wednesday.
The vote in the Brazilian lower house of parliament on Sunday in favor of impeaching left-leaning President Dilma Rousseff has raised the alarm around the Latin American continent about the further weakening of socialism in the region.
Embattled Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff vowed to wage a "long" fight against impeachment as Congress moved closer to putting her on trial in a deepening political crisis.