Fireworks go off in Brazil capital as Roussef bows out

Record ID: 103813

  • Title: Fireworks go off in Brazil capital as Roussef bows out
  • Date: 12th May 2016
  • Summary: BRASILIA, BRAZIL (MAY 12, 2016) (REUTERS) NEWSPAPER DISTRIBUTOR HOLDING UP A NEWSPAPER READING (Portuguese): "MICHEL'S MEN" NEWSPAPER DISTRIBUTOR PICKING A NEWSPAPER OUT OF BICYCLE BASKET NEWSPAPER READING (Portuguese): "DILMA LEAVES. TEMER LAUNCHES HIS FIRST MEASURES TODAY." (SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) NEWSPAPER DISTRIBUTOR, SINVAL MACEDO, SAYING: "All of us believe that Dilma is shameful, I hope things get better now. Unfortunately I voted for her, I regret it, Workers` Party never again." MACEDO CYCLING OUT TO DISTRIBUTE PAPERS VARIOUS OF THE ALVORADA PALACE, THE PRESIDENT'S OFFICIAL RESIDENCE SATELLITE TRUCKS OUTSIDE CONGRESS BUILDING LONG VIEW OF TELEVISION INSIDE THE BUILDING, SHOWING ATTORNEY GENERAL, JOSE EDUARDO CARDOZO, SPEAKING AT THE END OF THE SENATE VOTE JOURNALISTS INSIDE THE ROOM WITH THE TELEVISION SHOWING ATTORNEY GENERAL CONGRESS BUILDING AT SUNRISE PRO-IMPEACHMENT PROTESTERS CELEBRATING WITH BRAZIL FLAGS PRO-IMPEACHMENT PROTESTERS SINGING TO THE CAMERA WITH A BLOW UP FIGURE OF FORMER PRESIDENT, LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA, DRESSED AS A PRISONER AND A CARDBOARD HAND READING (Portuguese): "GOODBYE DARLING" THE SESSION IN THE SENATE BEING PLAYED OVER LOUD SPEAKER / BRAZIL FLAG PRO-IMPEACHMENT PROTESTERS WAITING FOR RESULTS OF SENATE VOTE AND CELEBRATING UPON CONFIRMATION FIREWORKS AND PEOPLE CELEBRATING WITH BRAZILIAN FLAGS VARIOUS OF PRO-IMPEACHMENT PROTESTERS JUMPING IN CELEBRATION, ONE WEARING A T-SHIRT READING (Portuguese): "IMPEACHMENT NOW" PRO-IMPEACHMENT PROTESTERS HUGGING / OTHERS CELEBRATING (SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) CIVIL SERVANT, MARCELO PINTO, SAYING: "It is so exciting, all our effort was worth it. There was a lot of suffering, I suffered so much I nearly died, but I am here fighting for young people, for my future, for my children. I am so happy." (SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) BUSINESSMAN, PEDRO ALCANTARA, SAYING: "Brazil is not Venezuela and it never will be, it belongs to the Brazilian people, and if you say the people don't have power, they do! Today, May 12, 2016, is proof of that, when we want it we change it." PROTESTERS CELEBRATING WITH FIREWORKS BEHIND
  • Embargoed: 27th May 2016 13:02
  • Keywords: Impeachment Brazil Dilma Rousseff vote Senate Brasilia
  • Location: BRASILIA, BRAZIL
  • City: BRASILIA, BRAZIL
  • Country: Brazil
  • Topics: Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA0014HI62IV
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: SHOTS 14 TO 19 HAVE ALREADY GONE OUT IN FULL IN A PREVIOUS EDIT - 4164-BRAZIL-POLITICS/IMPEACHMENT-REAX
    An elderly Brazilian newspaper boy set off early on Thursday morning (May 12) in the capital Brasilia with national papers predicting a senate vote to put President Dilma Rousseff on trial for allegedly breaking budget laws.
    "Dilma leaves. Temer launches first measures today" read one headline before the final vote.
    Temer was due to announce on Thursday measures to rebalance depleted fiscal accounts and generate new jobs in a country mired in its worst recession in decades, one of his top advisers told Reuters.
    He said Temer will name former central bank chief Henrique Meirelles to be finance minister. He added that Mansueto Almeida, a public accounts' expert, will likely be the next Treasury chief.
    Sinval Macedo, a Workers Party supporter, said he was sickened by what happened. He was one of 54 million Brazilians who had voted for Rousseff's re-election in 2014.
    "All of us believe that Dilma is shameful, I hope things get better now. Unfortunately I voted for her, I regret it, Workers` Party never again," said Macedo before he set off on his newspaper run.
    Shortly after dawn the senate voted 55 to 22 to suspend Rousseff during the senate trial. A historic decision brought on by a deep recession and a corruption scandal that will now confront Rousseff's successor, Vice President Michel Temer.
    The Senate vote ends more than 13 years of rule by the left-wing Workers Party, which rose from Brazil's labour movement and helped pull millions of people out of poverty before seeing many of its leaders face corruption investigations.
    The centrist Temer will take the helm of a country that again finds itself mired in political and economic volatility after a recent decade of prosperity.
    Members of the opposition blame the leftist leader, however, for running Latin America's largest economy into the worst recession in a generation.
    As the final results came in, following a marathon 20-hour session, a small group of pro-impeachment protesters jumped and cheered on the grounds outside Congress as fireworks roared overhead.
    "It is so exciting, all our effort was worth it. There was a lot of suffering, I suffered so much I nearly died, but I am here fighting for my virtue and for my children. I am so happy," said civil servant, Marcelo Pinto, barely holding back his tears.
    While opposition supporters celebrated, many Brazilians are concerned that the end of Workers Party rule could bring back bad times for the poor, who have made great strides in the last decade.
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