Dilma Rousseff might be gone, but Brazil’s political crisis certainly isn’t
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| Brazil’s new president, Michel Temer. Photograph: Xinhua/Rex Features |
The vote that sealed Michel Temer’s installation into power in Brazil took place precisely one week after the end of the Rio Olympic Games and just days before the G20 summit. Major disturbances were avoided during the Games and the new president was confirmed in his post just in time to take his flight and enjoy a convenient round of handshakes and photos with world leaders in China. Everything was carefully planned to make the arbitrary removal of a democratically elected president look like business as usual.
That’s not to say the new leadership in Brazil isn’t worried about whether it appears legitimate. Over the past few months, the alliance forged to oust Dilma Rousseff rejected calling the impeachment process that it was sponsoring a coup d’état. Some even threatened to take legal action against those making this claim in official debates. Their narrative insisted that constitutional procedures were observed.
It is true that, unlike the sudden impeachment carried out after just a couple of days inParaguay in 2012, or the clear use of force in Honduras in 2009, formalities were observed in the surreal trial of Rousseff. For over five months alleged government accounting irregularities were treated as one of the most serious crimes in Brazilian ..
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