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| Brazil acting President, Michel Temer |
Brazil's interim government on
Thursday pushed for speeding up the impeachment process against suspended
president Dilma Rousseff, who could be forced from office just as Rio starts
hosting the Olympic Games.
Rousseff is accused of taking
unauthorized loans to patch up the state budget during her 2014 re-election
campaign. In early 2015, she was suspended for the trial on May 12.
The suspension can run as long as six months, but acting president Michel Temer's team argued for ending far earlier, possibly even before the start of the Rio Olympics on August 5.
"For us, for the Temer government, it would be best if it were as quick as possible, while respecting the rules laid down by the Supreme Court," Temer's chief of staff Eliseu Padilha said.