Rousseff reaffirms that they want to take her office "without vote"

President Dilma Rousseff reaffirmed that the impeachment proceedings against her are an attempt to hold an indirect election by those who want to rise to power without votes. Addressing at a ceremony to deliver units of the Minha Casa, Minha Vida affordable housing program, in Salvador, Bahia, Rousseff repeated that "her power comes from the direct popular vote. In fact, these impeachment [proceedings] are an attempt to hold an indirect election by those who have no vote.

She added that the impeachment process is a "coup" against the last 13 years of social achievements. "It's a coup against the Bolsa Família [conditional cash transfer program], against the Minha Casa, Minha Vida, against the creation of universities in the countryside, against the Pronatec [National Program for the Access to Technical Education and Employment]," said the president, referring to her government's main social programs.

Without directly mentioning the vice president, Rousseff pointed out that Temer's possible government's program for the social area "begins with something very grave" by declaring that he would "revisit" social programs. "Revisit means to decrease the amount of money that the federal government invests in social programs. They want to be released from the government's duty to spend on education and health. "

Rousseff has also attacked Lower House Speaker Eduardo Cunha, who accepted the accusations and initiated impeachment proceedings against her, which lead to moving forward the case, approved by deputies on April 17.

“The most weird thing is that those prosecuting me are corrupt. The speaker of the lower house is a person that has banking accounts abroad, as everyone knows in Brazil. He is being accused by the Prosecutor-General's Office," she reported.

Translated by Amarílis Anchieta