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March 14, 2015 -- TeleSUR English, posted at /Links International
Journal of Socialist Renewal/ -- Government supporters say the
opposition is inventing a crisis in order to undemocratically remove
President Dilma Rousseff, of the Workers Party of Brazil, from power.
The political forces organising marches on March 15, 2015, against the
democratically elected government of Dilma Rousseff began conspiring
immediately after it became known that she had won the run-off election
in October 2014 against the candidate of the Brazilian elites, Aecio Neves.
The right-wing political opposition in Brazil has been reluctant to
accept the results of that election, seeking to implement their
neoliberal agenda by whatever means they can. The opposition, like their
right-wing contemporaries in the rest of Latin America, have become
frustrated at their repeated electoral defeats. The left-wing Workers
Party (PT) has been in power since Rousseff’s predecessor, Luis Ignacio
Lula da Silva, was elected president in 2002.
*Who is behind the impeachment campaign?*
Leaders of the Free Brazil Movement (MBL), one of the main organisers of
the March 15 marches, told /Folha de Sao Paulo/, “The main aim of the
movement, at this moment, is to overthrow the PT, the biggest nemesis of
freedom and democracy that haunts our country." In light of this goal,
the MBL has been pushing for impeachment proceedings against Rousseff.
Supporters of the government consider this an attempt to hold a “third
round” of elections. They accuse opponents of wilfully ignoring the fact
that Rousseff won the election with 51.64 per cent of the vote, in an
election that was affirmed by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.
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