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Impeachment Downplayed By Speaker Maia

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*BRAZIL SHOULDN'T FOCUS ON IMPEACHMENT W/MANAUS TRAGEDY: MAIA (bbg)


This comment on impeachment refers to multiple commentators declaring their recent views of the President:
  • One of Brazil's top political observers, Elio Gaspari, declared coronavirus "Bolsonaro's very own Chernobyl". Another, Jânio de Freitas, said the "vaccine shambles" was cause for impeachment.
  • Daniel Dourado, a public health expert and lawyer, agreed Bolsonaro's "disastrous" reaction warranted immediate impeachment: "It's one outrage after the next. Dilma Rousseff was removed for so much less."
  • But, remarkably, the public mood had yet to turn significantly against Bolsonaro, Dourado added. A bargain with a notoriously self-interested bloc of centre-right parties called the "centrão" has ensured calls for impeachment have been unsuccessful.

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