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The Senate commission in charge of the impeachment process against Dilma Rousseff failed to adhere to its own schedule for beginning that process on Wednesday, highlighting the dysfunctional state of Brazilian politics since the Senate-backed ouster of the country's elected president.
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On Wednesday, senators demanded a wider investigation into the Operation Car Wash scandal involving the state oil company, Petrobras. Many of the lawmakers who backed the removal of Rousseff are implicated in that scandal.
The Senate commission met on Wednesday, but had to end the meeting earlier after Worker’s Party (PT) lawmaker Lindbergh Farias demanded the commission review leaked recordings featuring interim Planning and Development Minister Romero Juca and Senate President Renan Calheiros saying they hoped to squash investigations into corruption by removing Rousseff from office.
"Juca was the largest articulator of the impeachment inside the Senate, for us it is clear that the motivation of that impeachment is not the supplementary credit decree," said Farias.
Opposition lawmakers proposed an impeachment process against Rousseff for alleged budget irregularites. She is not accused of personal corruption.
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