Pro-Impeachment 'Anti-Corruption' Legislator Tied To Corruption

When Lawmaker Raquel Muñiz, Social Christian Party, voted in favor of the impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff Sunday, she justified the move over the government's “bloody corruption." The following day, the federal police arrested her husband Ruy Adriano Borges Muñiz over corruption charges.

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Muñiz, mayor of Montes Claros, is being accused of illegally trying to take down the city's public hospitals, in order to boost hiw own private clinic.

During the voting on Sunday, many pro-impeachment lawmakers said they did it for bizarre reasons, including "for God", "for the evangelicals","for my wife", "for my daughter to be born soon", or even "for the military officers who did the coup in 1964", "for the anniversary of my city", "in order to defend oil" or even "the insurance salespersons in Brazil".

According to Rousseff earlier Monday, lawmakers who voted in favor of the political trial did not have any concrete arguments. “Governments can make mistakes, this is not a reason to launch a political trial,” she repeated, recalling that her predecessors also implemented similar measures to adjust the nation's budget, without being impeached.