Survey Shows 60% of Brazil’s Congress Would Vote to Impeach - See more at: http://riotimesonline.com

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SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – More than sixty percent of all representatives at the Chamber of Deputies say that they are in favor of the impeachment of Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, according to a survey by Datafolha. This percentage would represent 308 of the 342 votes needed for the Chamber of Deputies to approve the impeachment.

President Dilma Rousseff is currently facing one of the worst crisis of her government, and runs the risk of being impeached, photo by Wilson Dias/Agência Brasil. The survey also shows that 108 representatives, or 21 percent of the Lower House, are against the impeachment of President Rousseff. To halt the impeachment process from going to the Senate, the government needs 172 votes.

Both government supporters and critics are now after the eighteen percent of representatives who are indecisive. These, say analysts, are the ones who will decide Rousseff’s future in the Lower House.

Datafolha also interviewed Brazilian senators, and found that 55 percent would vote for the impeachment of the President, while 24 percent defend that Rousseff stay on until the end of her second term, in 2018. President Rousseff’s support in Congress declined considerably after her biggest ally, the PMDB party, left the government coalition at the end of March. - See more at: http://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/rio-politics/majority-of-brazils-congress-would-vote-for-impeachment-survey/#sthash.WqexO4o2.dpuf