The Brazilian Democratic Movement is a Brazilian political party. It is considered a "big tent party" and it is one of the parties with the greatest representation throughout the national territory,with the most numbers of senators,mayors and city councillors,always having formed a large part of the National Congress since 1988,and also has the largest number of affiliates,with 2,131,547 members as of 2022.
Dilma Vana Rousseff is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the 36th president of Brazil,holding the position from 2011 until her impeachment and removal from office on 31 August 2016. She is the first woman to have held the Brazilian presidency and had previously served as chief of staff to former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from 2005 to 2010.
Datafolha is Grupo Folha's polling institute,founded in 1983 as the research department of Empresa Folha da ManhãS. A.,and later on became a separate company able to serve external clients,from 1990. In 1995,it became a separate business unit within Grupo Folha,a group of companies to which newspaper Folha de S.Paulo belongs.
General elections were held in Brazil on 5 October 2014 to elect the president,the National Congress,and state governorships. As no candidate in the presidential election received more than 50% of the vote in the first round on 5 October 2014,a second-round runoff was held on 26 October 2014.
Corruption in Brazil exists on all levels of society from the top echelons of political power to the smallest municipalities. Operation Car Wash showed central government members using the prerogatives of their public office for rent-seeking activities,ranging from political support to siphoning funds from state-owned corporation for personal gain. Specifically,mensalão typically referred to the practice of transferring taxpayer funds as monthly allowances to members of congress from other political parties in consideration for their support and votes in congress. Politicians used the state-owned and state-run oil company Petrobras to raise hundreds of millions of reais for political campaigns and personal enrichment.
Operation Car Wash was a criminal investigation by the Federal Police of Brazil's Curitiba branch. It began in March 2014 and was initially headed by investigative judge Sérgio Moro,and in 2019 by Judge Luiz Antônio Bonat. It has resulted in more than a thousand warrants of various types. According to the Operation Car Wash task force,investigations implicate administrative members of the state-owned oil company Petrobras,politicians from Brazil's largest parties,presidents of the Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate,state governors,and businessmen from large Brazilian companies. The Federal Police consider it the largest corruption investigation in the country's history. The taskforce was officially disbanded on 1 February 2021.
In 2015 and 2016,a series of protests in Brazil denounced corruption and the government of President Dilma Rousseff,triggered by revelations that numerous politicians allegedly accepted bribes connected to contracts at state-owned energy company Petrobras between 2003 and 2010 and connected to the Workers' Party,while Rousseff chaired the company's board of directors. The first protests on 15 March 2015 numbered between one and nearly three million protesters against the scandal and the country's poor economic situation. In response,the government introduced anti-corruption legislation. A second day of major protesting occurred 12 April,with turnout,according to GloboNews,ranging from 696,000 to 1,500,000. On 16 August,protests took place in 200 cities in all 26 states of Brazil. Following allegations that Rousseff's predecessor,Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva,participated in money laundering and a prosecutor ordered his arrest,record numbers of Brazilians protested against the Rousseff government on 13 March 2016,with nearly 7 million citizens demonstrating.
Eduardo Cosentino da Cunha,is a Brazilian politician and radio host,born in Rio de Janeiro. He was President of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil from February 2015 until May 5,2016,when he was removed from the position by the Supreme Court. BBC News labeled him the "nemesis" of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. He was indicted in the scandal known as Operation Car Wash involving the state-owned oil company Petrobras and other corporations. Cunha was suspended as speaker of the Chamber of Deputies by the Supreme Court on the request of the Prosecutor-General due to allegations that he had attempted to intimidate members of Congress and obstructed investigations into his alleged bribe-taking. Cunha resigned from his position later,on July 7,2016,after a disciplinary process in Congress that had lasted nine months,making it the longest in Brazilian Congressional history. A series of legal manoeuvres had stalled the process and kept Cunha in charge of the Chamber of Deputies. While the Chamber's Commission of Ethics was divided on the issue until June,the Chamber of Deputies plenary,on September 12,2016,voted 450–10 in favour of stripping Cunha of his position as federal deputy for breaching parliamentary decorum by lying about secret offshore bank accounts.
Events in the year 2016 in Brazil:
General elections were held in Brazil on 7 October 2018 to elect the president,National Congress and state governors. As no candidate in the presidential election received more than 50% of the vote in the first round,a runoff round was held on 28 October.
The impeachment of Dilma Rousseff,the 36th president of Brazil,began on 2 December 2015 with a petition for her impeachment being accepted by Eduardo Cunha,then president of the Chamber of Deputies,and continued into late 2016. Dilma Rousseff,then more than 12 months into her second four-year term,was charged with criminal administrative misconduct and disregard for the federal budget in violation of article 85,items V and VI,of the Constitution of Brazil and the Fiscal Responsibility Law,article 36. The petition also accused Rousseff of criminal responsibility for failing to act on the scandal at the Brazilian national petroleum company,Petrobras,on account of allegations uncovered by the Operation Car Wash investigation,and for failing to distance herself from the suspects in that investigation.
The impeachment proposal against Michel Temer,the former President of Brazil and former vice-president,consisted of an open procedural matter with a goal to preventing the continuation of the mandate of Michel Temer as vice president/acting president of the Republic of Brazil. Temer served as Acting President during the Impeachment process against Dilma Rousseff. The process began with the performance of judicial decision on April 6,2016,the President of the Chamber of Deputies,Eduardo Cunha,to form commission for termination analysis of liability for crime offered by Mariel M. Marra. Four other requests for impeachment were presented to Cunha.
Events in the year 2017 in Brazil.
Bruno Cavalcanti de Araújo is a Brazilian lawyer and politician,filiated to the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB). Was discharged from his third term as federal deputy for the state of Pernambuco to assume the Ministry of Cities,appointed by the then acting president Michel Temer.
Hélio Pereira Bicudo was a Brazilian jurist and politician.
Vicente Paulo da Silva more commonly known as Vicentinho is a Brazilian politician as well as a syndicalist and trade union president. Although born in Rio Grande do Norte,he has spent his political career representing São Paulo,having served as federal deputy representative since 2003.
Luiz Felipe Baleia Tenuto Rossi,commonly known as Baleia Rossi,is a Brazilian politician and entrepreneur,incumbent Federal Deputy from São Paulo and National President of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB).
Since the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff as President of Brazil became a subject of debated and taking a lot of space in the media,the main polling institutes of the country made many opinion polls about it.
In Brazilian politics,the centrão refers to a group of political parties that do not have a specific or consistent ideological orientation and aim at ensuring proximity to the executive branch in order to guarantee advantages and allow them to distribute privileges through clientelistic networks. Despite its name,the centrão is not a centrist political group,generally composed of parliamentarians from the "lower clergy" and big tent parties,who act according to their own interests,linked to cronyism and logrolling.
The Michel Temer presidential inauguration was held on 31 August 2016. He was definitely sworn in as president after 3 months as acting president. His inauguration occurred after Dilma Rousseff impeachment process.
