Cold Coup d'Etat in Brazil
Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff today has been deposed of her office. To this, vice party chair of DIE LINKE Tobias Pflüger declares:
The impeachment against Dilma Rousseff is a cold coup d'etat which has been coordinated between parts of the parliamentarian opposition, justice, and media. The charges layed against Rousseff to massage budget figures served the opposition as a pretence to push the president, who was democratically elected in 2014, out of office. Prosecutable corruption cannot be proven against her, the fight of corruption was on her political agenda. Ironically enough her opponents are involved in bribery scandals and now want to save their necks. In the meantime, former president of parliament, Eduardo Cunha, who opened the procedure against Rousseff, has been removed from office because of corruption. Behind the procedure, which only helped the opposition to get to power without democratically legitimised elections, stand clear economic and political interests.
The decision now reached in the senate is a step backwards for democracy and for Brazil. The political direction the ultra conservative interim government is heading for has already become obvious: The interim cabinet, which exclusively consists of white men, already deposed of several ministries, among them that for women and for the implementation of the agrarian reform. Cuts and privatisations are on the agenda of this government.
DIE LINKE condems this cold coup d'etat against the PT (Partido dos Trabahadores/Workers Party) and declares her solidarity. We support the demand for new elections because the Brazilian people should themselve decide wether they actually want the current reactionary interim government or rather democracy, social justice, and a progressive Brazil. Furthermore, DIE LINKE asks the German government to condem this c