Brazil's Senate has voted to suspend its President from office. She is allegedly planning to step down given the vote.
It turns out this is actually business as usual in Brazil, where almost no Presidents finish their term in office. I have a certain jealousy for their capacity to remove corrupt officials, although not for the apparent surplus of corrupt officials they have to remove. Still, it's not as if we're lacking for them here. We just have less recourse.
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It turns out this is actually business as usual in Brazil, where almost no Presidents finish their term in office
Not so. Dilma is the second President in 30 years to get impeached. Before, 20 years of military Presidents.
I'm not an expert, but the data comes from a Brazilian friend. She says that, in the last 90 years, only 5 elected presidents have completed their term in office.
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