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| Dilma Rousseff impeachment: Brazilian police fire teargas at protesters – live | Dilma Rousseff impeachment: Brazilian police fire teargas at protesters – live |
| (35 minutes later) | |
| 1.59am BST | |
| 01:59 | |
| Associated Press sends this dispatch on unrest outside the senate tonight: | |
| Protesters supporting Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff have clashed with police on the lawn outside the Senate as senators debated whether to impeach the leader. | |
| It wasn’t clear what sparked the short but intense confrontations. Police used pepper spray to drive back protesters. Demonstrators largely from feminist groups threw firecrackers at police lines. | |
| Emergency service workers took several people out of the area after they fell ill with the effects of the clouds of pepper spray. | |
| Pepper spray earlier in front of Congress #impeachment pic.twitter.com/jwmSvxZJx4 | |
| On the Senate floor, Communist party senator Vanessa Grazziontin expressed worry about what she called spiralling levels of “unnecessary violence” directed at pro-Rousseff demonstrators. | |
| A wall erected down the center of the lawn separated several thousand Rousseff supporters from a similar-sized group of pro-impeachment protesters. On the pro-impeachment side, a Carnival-esque spirit reigned, with demonstrators sipping beers while decked out in the yellow and green jersey of Brazil’s beloved national soccer team. | |
| Both groups were much smaller than the crowds that turned out for the 17 April impeachment vote in the lower house of Congress. | |
| 1.54am BST | |
| 01:54 | |
| Get your snacks in: senate leader Renan Calheiros is saying the proceedings could continue until 5am local time (4am ET/9am BST/6pm AEST). | |
| Do @gcamarotti: Renan prevê sessão que vota o impeachment até 5h da manhã de quinta https://t.co/rxb7FwVBRC pic.twitter.com/Gvd1VcfLLc | |
| 1.45am BST | |
| 01:45 | |
| Senator Vanessa Grazziotin is speaking now. She has previously called for the impeachment process to be suspended. | |
| Tonight she tells senators that voting for Rousseff’s removal would be a fraud against the laws of democracy: | |
| Vanessa Grazziotin: Caso este Plenário aprove o processo, estaremos diante de uma das maiores fraudes ao Estado Democrático de Direito | |
| “What hypocrisy, what lies!” she tweets, with a reference to Lava Jato, or Operation Carwash, the investigation into the Petrobras scandal that has embroiled many of Brazil’s politicians – including a number of those calling for Rousseff to go: | |
| Quanta hipocrisia, quanta mentira! O que eles querem é também acabar com a Lava Jato #equipevanessa | |
| Grazziotin is greeted with hugs as she returns to her seat. | |
| 1.38am BST | |
| 01:38 | |
| Senate speeches latest: we now have 25 senators who have declared themselves in favour of impeachment, and five against. | |
| A reminder: a simple majority is enough to see Rousseff suspended. On a full complement of 81 senators, with all members present, that’s 41 votes needed to impeach. | |
| But so far during this 10-hour+ session, the chamber has not had full attendance at any point. | |
| 1.35am BST | |
| 01:35 | |
| Rousseff and Jaques Wagner, former defence minister, watch the crowds from inside the Planalto palace: | |
| O ministro Jaques Wagner e a presidente Dilma foram flagrados na janela do Planalto https://t.co/PlpljN03UE pic.twitter.com/nmo42WSudN | |
| 1.28am BST | |
| 01:28 | |
| Brazilian newspaper O Globo reports that current vice-president (and presumptive president in the event of Rousseff’s impeachment) Michel Temer is pressing ahead with the assembling of his new government, with the appointment of a new attorney general, Fábio Medina Osório. | |
| The current attorney general, José Eduardo Cardozo, is expected to leave with Rousseff. | |
| 1.17am BST | 1.17am BST |
| 01:17 | 01:17 |
| China’s censors aren’t keen to share the news of the impeachment vote: | China’s censors aren’t keen to share the news of the impeachment vote: |
| Bizarrely, Chinese TV censors spiked @BBCWorld story on Brazil impeachment vote this morning. Clearly not Temer fans pic.twitter.com/e7HmLrhPXH | Bizarrely, Chinese TV censors spiked @BBCWorld story on Brazil impeachment vote this morning. Clearly not Temer fans pic.twitter.com/e7HmLrhPXH |
| 1.10am BST | 1.10am BST |
| 01:10 | 01:10 |
| Claire Phipps | Claire Phipps |
| Hello, this is Claire Phipps picking up the live blog reins to take you through to the Senate vote in – I hope – a few hours’ time. | Hello, this is Claire Phipps picking up the live blog reins to take you through to the Senate vote in – I hope – a few hours’ time. |
| In the first 10 (10!) hours of this session, 30 senators had their say, fewer than half of those scheduled to speak. Senate leader Renan Calheiros has now pledged not to take a recess and push the proceeding through to a vote. But it looks as if it will be the early hours of Thursday morning, Brazil time, before the result is official. | In the first 10 (10!) hours of this session, 30 senators had their say, fewer than half of those scheduled to speak. Senate leader Renan Calheiros has now pledged not to take a recess and push the proceeding through to a vote. But it looks as if it will be the early hours of Thursday morning, Brazil time, before the result is official. |
| 12.52am BST | 12.52am BST |
| 00:52 | 00:52 |
| Summary | Summary |
| Ten hours into Brazil’s Senate debate about ousting President Dilma Rousseff from office, the pro-impeachment forces look certain to win tonight’s vote. Rousseff stands accused of illegally using government funds to mask the true state of the Brazilian economy. | Ten hours into Brazil’s Senate debate about ousting President Dilma Rousseff from office, the pro-impeachment forces look certain to win tonight’s vote. Rousseff stands accused of illegally using government funds to mask the true state of the Brazilian economy. |
| My colleague Claire Phipps in Sydney is going to take over our live coverage for the second half of this marathon debate and vote. Here’s where things stand at the moemnt | My colleague Claire Phipps in Sydney is going to take over our live coverage for the second half of this marathon debate and vote. Here’s where things stand at the moemnt |
| 12.42am BST | 12.42am BST |
| 00:42 | 00:42 |
| The Senate debate has little of the chaos of House’ vote last month, during which lawmakers pledged their decisions to family members, freemasons and the chief torturer of Brazil’s military dictatorship – under which Dilma Rousseff was herself tortured. | The Senate debate has little of the chaos of House’ vote last month, during which lawmakers pledged their decisions to family members, freemasons and the chief torturer of Brazil’s military dictatorship – under which Dilma Rousseff was herself tortured. |
| Instead the senators seem intent on turning the impeachment debate into something between a classroom and one very, very long advertisement for re-election. After each of the senators gets a turn (we’re about a third of the way through) there are speeches to sum up the pro- and anti-impeachment arguments. Then the Senate finally votes. | Instead the senators seem intent on turning the impeachment debate into something between a classroom and one very, very long advertisement for re-election. After each of the senators gets a turn (we’re about a third of the way through) there are speeches to sum up the pro- and anti-impeachment arguments. Then the Senate finally votes. |
| Senate hearing just turned into a high school class. Senate leader said, "If people don't turn off their cellphones, I'm calling a time-out. | Senate hearing just turned into a high school class. Senate leader said, "If people don't turn off their cellphones, I'm calling a time-out. |
| Scene in Brazil Senate is not circus of the lower house vote on impeachment, but get sense many senators speaking w next campaign ad in mind | Scene in Brazil Senate is not circus of the lower house vote on impeachment, but get sense many senators speaking w next campaign ad in mind |
| Another hour, a Dilma defender may lose his or mind and say Yes, vote for impeachment! just to shut them up. | Another hour, a Dilma defender may lose his or mind and say Yes, vote for impeachment! just to shut them up. |
| 12.26am BST | 12.26am BST |
| 00:26 | 00:26 |
| Three Brazils: red in support of the president against impeachment, yellow and green in support of her ouster, and a Congress whose senators, many of whom are accused of corruption, are debating criminal charges against the president. | Three Brazils: red in support of the president against impeachment, yellow and green in support of her ouster, and a Congress whose senators, many of whom are accused of corruption, are debating criminal charges against the president. |
| Divided Brazil. Tear gas clashes on red side of wall. Drunken dance party on yellow side. pic.twitter.com/tsQkm6jRy6 | Divided Brazil. Tear gas clashes on red side of wall. Drunken dance party on yellow side. pic.twitter.com/tsQkm6jRy6 |
| The senators are still debating, and Senate leader Renan Calheiros maintains that everyone should have 15 minutes to speak, rather than five minutes as some senators suggest. | The senators are still debating, and Senate leader Renan Calheiros maintains that everyone should have 15 minutes to speak, rather than five minutes as some senators suggest. |
| Yet he is also one of the few lawmakers in the room who is urging his peers to stay on some semblance of a schedule – he just threatened to suspend several lawmakers who wouldn’t stop talking or whose phones kept going off. | Yet he is also one of the few lawmakers in the room who is urging his peers to stay on some semblance of a schedule – he just threatened to suspend several lawmakers who wouldn’t stop talking or whose phones kept going off. |
| Is there a political class that loves to hear itself talking more than this lot in Brasília? | Is there a political class that loves to hear itself talking more than this lot in Brasília? |
| So President Dilma is planning on talking to press at 10am tomorrow. But we may not have the final vote by then… 21 x 4 | So President Dilma is planning on talking to press at 10am tomorrow. But we may not have the final vote by then… 21 x 4 |
| 12.17am BST | 12.17am BST |
| 00:17 | 00:17 |
| Jon Watts is still out with the crowd on the streets, where he’s met some of the people who were exposed to the teargas fired by police. | Jon Watts is still out with the crowd on the streets, where he’s met some of the people who were exposed to the teargas fired by police. |
| Anti impeachment protester in Brasilia carried off for treatment. Friends say she couldn't breathe due to tear gas. pic.twitter.com/2s7jJGzBBV | Anti impeachment protester in Brasilia carried off for treatment. Friends say she couldn't breathe due to tear gas. pic.twitter.com/2s7jJGzBBV |
| 12.03am BST | 12.03am BST |
| 00:03 | 00:03 |
| Neves expounds at length about how “the Workers’ Party is going back to ancient ways”, raising many of the arguments he made while campaigning against Rousseff in 2014. His vote should not be in doubt. | Neves expounds at length about how “the Workers’ Party is going back to ancient ways”, raising many of the arguments he made while campaigning against Rousseff in 2014. His vote should not be in doubt. |
| The president’s office has meanwhile said that Rousseff will speak to the press at 10am local time Thursday morning, not immediately after the vote as originally planned. | The president’s office has meanwhile said that Rousseff will speak to the press at 10am local time Thursday morning, not immediately after the vote as originally planned. |
| Aécio Neves is giving the victory speech he couldn't in the 2014 election. | Aécio Neves is giving the victory speech he couldn't in the 2014 election. |
| And speaking of the old … | And speaking of the old … |
| One of the senators supposed to vote today is the president Brazil impeached in the 90s. He hasn't shown up yet. | One of the senators supposed to vote today is the president Brazil impeached in the 90s. He hasn't shown up yet. |
| 11.52pm BST | 11.52pm BST |
| 23:52 | 23:52 |
| The AP has been talking to some of the senators who’ve declared their vote – none are mincing words about their feelings. | The AP has been talking to some of the senators who’ve declared their vote – none are mincing words about their feelings. |
| “To improve the life of the nation we need to remove them[(Rousseff’s Workers’ Party] at this time,” Senator Magno Malta told a scrum of journalists outside the Senate floor. “We will start to breathe again and the doctor will say the nation has given signs of life and will be stable soon.” | “To improve the life of the nation we need to remove them[(Rousseff’s Workers’ Party] at this time,” Senator Magno Malta told a scrum of journalists outside the Senate floor. “We will start to breathe again and the doctor will say the nation has given signs of life and will be stable soon.” |
| “The great day has come” to “extract the nation from the claws of the Workers’ Party,” said Senator Ataides Oliveira, the fifth of 63 Senators slated to speak during the debate | “The great day has come” to “extract the nation from the claws of the Workers’ Party,” said Senator Ataides Oliveira, the fifth of 63 Senators slated to speak during the debate |
| Rousseff “is the one who is having to pay for everything,” said Senator Telmario Mota de Oliveira, who argued the country’s problems shouldn’t be all pinned on the president. | Rousseff “is the one who is having to pay for everything,” said Senator Telmario Mota de Oliveira, who argued the country’s problems shouldn’t be all pinned on the president. |
| Aécio Neves, the man who Dilma Rousseff defeated in the 2014 presidential race and a leader of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, now has the podium. He’s tipped to take a position of power such as foreign minister in the hypothetical presidency of Michel Temer, the vice-president. | Aécio Neves, the man who Dilma Rousseff defeated in the 2014 presidential race and a leader of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, now has the podium. He’s tipped to take a position of power such as foreign minister in the hypothetical presidency of Michel Temer, the vice-president. |
| Aecio: We’re here to vote against a person, not against a political party. | Aecio: We’re here to vote against a person, not against a political party. |
| 11.40pm BST | 11.40pm BST |
| 23:40 | 23:40 |
| Back inside the Senate, the anti-Rousseff coalition inches toward the halfway mark of declared votes needed for impeachment. | Back inside the Senate, the anti-Rousseff coalition inches toward the halfway mark of declared votes needed for impeachment. |
| Eduardo Amorim says Brazil is a “country without credibility”, votes for impeachment. 19 x 4 | Eduardo Amorim says Brazil is a “country without credibility”, votes for impeachment. 19 x 4 |