Rousseff: I’ll fight my way back to power
Brazil’s embattled president says she is going to fight by all means to win back her position as the country’s head of state, if she is forced to leave office.
Interviewed by the state-run BBC on Thursday, Dilma Rousseff vowed to fight "to the bitter end" to return to power if her legion of detractors manage to divest her of the position.
The leading newspaper O Globo claimed on Monday it had obtained information from Vice President Michel Temer's office that Rousseff was set to resign as president this Friday.
"Do not count on me to resign. If I resign, the living proof that there is a coup... disappears," she said, reiterating her claim that Temer (seen below), who is tipped to replace her, has plotted her dismissal.
Senators will vote next week on whether to open an impeachment trial against her. The potential of impeachment boils down to allegations that she doctored government accounts in 2014 so she could increase public spending as a means of wooing votes for re-election.
If the Senate votes for a trial, she will be suspended for six months.
"The impeachment process is illegitimate, illegal," she said, adding, "They may well investigate me. I'll accept any inquiry because I know I'm innocent.”
Separately, she is suspected of involvement in the country’s most controversial ever graft scandal.
The scandal circles around Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras, which was formerly chaired by Rousseff. Under the alleged scheme, construction companies conspired with Petrobras executives to overcharge the oil giant as much as USD two billion, some of which was paid out as bribes to politicians and parties.
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