Rousseff Ally Concedes Defeat in Congress Impeachment Vote
What Is Brazil's Way Forward From Impeachment Vote?
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President Dilma Rousseff has lost a key impeachment vote in the lower house but will fight back in court and in the Senate, a government leader in Congress said.
"We can turn the game around in Brazil’s Senate," Jose Guimaraes, Rousseff’s leader in the lower house, told reporters as the vote was wrapping up. The "coup mongers" were stronger, he said.