Abstract

ALMAGRO-CASTRO, David. ¿Legitimate trial or covert coup? The impeachment to the President of the Brazilian Federal Republic, Dilma Rousseff. Rev. Derecho Estado [online]. 2019, n.42, pp.25-50. ISSN 0122-9893.  https://doi.org/10.18601/01229893.n42.02.

The involuntary resignation of the first women elected president in Brazil have had negative consequences for the desirable institutional strengthening of the brazilian democracy in such a profound way that needs a reflexive evaluation. This issue - the real overthrowing of the former president - is have been made by using the main responsibility mechanism established in the presidentialism system: the impeachment. The current article defines - by taking into consideration an interdisciplinary method founded on the Political Science as well as the Law science - if there were enough reason for the deposition of the prime minister or, on the contrary, it has meant a violation of the sovereign mandate given by the electorate, supposing the illegitimate removal of a president elected by fifty-four million citizens.

Keywords : Impeachment; democracy; institutional crisis; neoliberalism; coup..

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