“Brazil’s young democracy is
being subjected to a coup,” said Dilma Rousseff after the Senate on May 12 voted 55 to 22 to remove her
as president and move forward with impeachment.
Is this really a coup, as
Rousseff and her supporters believe? Coups usually entail the violent overthrow
of a government or a trampling of constitutional rules and procedures. In
Brazil, there has been no involvement by the military other than to keep the
peace.
And the major players in this
real-life Brazilian telenovela – Congress, the judiciary, the federal police
and the Federal Accounting Office (TCU) – are all playing by the constitutional rules.
This is testimony to strong institutions in Brazil and a victory for checks and
balances.
Far from being a coup, the
current tumult, I believe, offers a chance for Brazil, with the right
leadership, to return to the policies initiated in the mid-1990s that put the
country on a virtuous trajectory of rising growth and falling inequality. The
middle class expanded dramatically and the political system became more
transparent.
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