Brazil's Senate to vote on impeachment report recommending Rousseff trial
Brazil's senators will hold a floor session Tuesday (Aug. 9) to begin discussing the impeachment committee report with Senator Antonio Anastasia's findings and motion to try President Dilma Rousseff by Senate jury on impeachable offenses. If the report is approved, Rousseff will go on trial later this month.
Today's session will be presided over by Chief Supreme Court Justice Ricardo Lewandowski and has been planned to last about 20 hours. It will begin with the senators' points of order and the reading of the committee report. Each senator will then have ten minutes to speak.
Senators will cast their votes on the electronic voting systems. During a meeting at the Senate last week, Lewandowski agreed this and other details of the session with party leaders. It was decided that the session will continue until the final floor vote, with one-hour rest breaks every four hours. The voting is expected to take place in the early hours of Wednesday (Aug. 10).
Translated by Mayra Borges
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