Rousseff suffers her first blow within the new Brazilian Congress

Brasilia.-Eduardo Cunha, a deputy who opposed numerous legislative proposals of the president’s authorities throughout her first time period, is the brand new president of the Chamber of Deputies

The Authorities of Dilma Rousseff suffered its first main defeat of the brand new legislature on the opening of the Brazilian Congress, held this Sunday. Deputy Eduardo Cunha, from the opposition PMDB, was elected president of the Chamber of Deputies within the first spherical. Cunha, an outdated headache for Dilma’s Authorities, acquired 267 votes, ten greater than mandatory, following working a marketing campaign that emphasised the separation between legislators and the Govt. The comfort that the president acquired on the day is that her candidate for the Senate, Renan Calheiros, additionally from the PMDB, was re-elected with out incident.

After the announcement of his victory, Cunha proclaimed that he would be the “president of all” and that, regardless of the “intention of the Govt to intervene” within the elections for the Chamber of Deputies, he had no grudges. «There isn’t any want on our half to retaliate. It was a extremely contested marketing campaign, however the folks made it very clear that they have been looking for independence from Parliament. [frente al Ejecutivo]. It’s [el Congreso] It’s the state of affairs the place the debates which are wanted and that shall be held, with full certainty, should be carried out. “We by no means mentioned we’d be opposition, however we mentioned we’d not be submissive, and we is not going to be.”

The brand new president of the Chamber of Deputies, who confronted the Rousseff Authorities significantly throughout the exhausting voting course of for the Ports Legislation in 2013, might have the ability to outline what is going to go to vote within the Home. With out being aligned with the Planalto Palace, regardless of being a part of the Authorities’s base, Cunha might trigger issues for the president if he plans tasks that would power the Govt to make extra bills than it had deliberate, particularly in a 12 months wherein who had deliberate an financial adjustment.

Eduardo Cunha, a deputy who opposed numerous legislative proposals of the president’s authorities throughout her first time period, is the brand new president of the Chamber of Deputies

The Authorities of Dilma Rousseff suffered its first main defeat of the brand new legislature on the opening of the Brazilian Congress, held this Sunday. Deputy Eduardo Cunha, from the opposition PMDB, was elected president of the Chamber of Deputies within the first spherical. Cunha, an outdated headache for Dilma’s Authorities, acquired 267 votes, ten greater than mandatory, following working a marketing campaign that emphasised the separation between legislators and the Govt. The comfort that the president acquired on the day is that her candidate for the Senate, Renan Calheiros, additionally from the PMDB, was re-elected with out incident.

After the announcement of his victory, Cunha proclaimed that he would be the “president of all” and that, regardless of the “intention of the Govt to intervene” within the elections for the Chamber of Deputies, he had no grudges. «There isn’t any want on our half to retaliate. It was a extremely contested marketing campaign, however the folks made it very clear that they have been looking for independence from Parliament. [frente al Ejecutivo]. It’s [el Congreso] It’s the state of affairs the place the debates which are wanted and that shall be held, with full certainty, should be carried out. “We by no means mentioned we’d be opposition, however we mentioned we’d not be submissive, and we is not going to be.”

The brand new president of the Chamber of Deputies, who confronted the Rousseff Authorities significantly throughout the exhausting voting course of for the Ports Legislation in 2013, might have the ability to outline what is going to go to vote within the Home. With out being aligned with the Planalto Palace, regardless of being a part of the Authorities’s base, Cunha might trigger issues for the president if he plans tasks that would power the Govt to make extra bills than it had deliberate, particularly in a 12 months wherein who had deliberate an financial adjustment.