
Brasilia-Ousted Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff confirmed the illegitimacy of the government of Michel Temer and warned that the coup perpetrators do anything possible to prevent the transparency of this process.
This is a parliamentary coup, but a coup after all, Dilma said in statements made at the Alvorada Palace. She emphasized that the newly-formed executive already gave clear signs of not being committed to the electoral program approved in the 2014 presidential elections.
If Temer claimed the right to use the vice presidency to assume the Presidency of the Republic, he also has to use that condition to comply with the program that gave me the mandate at the polls (with the vote of more than 54 million voters), she said.
Referring to the double vote at the plenary session of the Senate on August 31, and as a result of which she was finally removed from office, Dilma noted that at the very least, it was something strange.
The Senate approved by a qualified majority the end to Rousseff's mandate, but it did not get the necessary support to deprive her from holding a public post for an eight-year period.
According to Dilma, the fact that she preserved her political rights does not diminish what the legislators did. In order to remove me from office, I was sentenced to a political death penalty, the worst that a Brazilian person can go through.
She also considered that 'they stripped of their clothes in that voting process.' There were many undecided senators, who were suspicious that that process was not what they thought, but they were under huge pressure by the interim government, she said.
In her remarks, the former president rejected the repressive actions that the police have been carrying out in recent days, mainly in Sao Paolo, against demonstrators opposed to the impeachment and who demand the immediate departure of the coup perpetrators.
