Lula da Silva’s party is asking Congress to annul the impeachment that removed Dilma Rousseff from the presidency in 2016.

Lula da Silva’s Labor Party submitted a draft resolution to Congress calling for the abolition of all sessions of Parliament, which in 2016 led to the removal of then-President Dilma Rousseff from office in 2016. The petition was a request from Lula, who had already announced during a visit to Angola on Friday that he would offer a form of “compensation” for Dilma for the loss of her mandate, in what he believed was an institutional coup, formulated and orchestrated. Michel Temer, the then vice-president of Brazil, who took office as president of the country.

The document calls for the cancellation of all meetings of the Chamber of Deputies, where the process was initiated, at which the issue of impeachment was discussed, and, mainly, the meeting of the Senate, chaired by the judge of the Federal Supreme Court in the case of Ricardo Lewandowski. , as required by law that sentenced Dilma Rousseff to resign just over a year and a half after her second term. But in the petition, the PT points out that the idea is to symbolically correct what the party considers a historical mistake, rather than return the presidency to Dilma.

“Obviously, it is impossible to go back in time and restore a mandate already violated by political tricks and time. However, the duty of the National Congress, devoted to the national memory and not attached to its possible mistakes, becomes the duty of the National Congress, dedicated to the national memory and not attached to its possible mistakes. contribute to the historical reparation for the secret and unjustified withdrawal of the presidential mandate of Dilma Vana Rousseff,” reads one of the sections of the draft resolution.

The project is based on a decision taken a few days ago by the Federal Regional Court of the 1st region TRF-1, which rejected in the second instance the conviction of Dilma Rousseff for the offense of an administrative offense. The court dismissed the lawsuit without even assessing the substance of the lawsuit, which accused Dilma of illegal financial maneuvers in order to mask a cruel hole in public accounts and thanks to this managed to be re-elected in 2014, as the judges believed that, since the decision that reached the court after the dismissal of Dilma, lost its raison d’être, since a possible punishment would be deprivation of office, which has already happened by decision of Congress.

In fact, Dilma Rousseff was removed from office not because of this allegation of illegal financial maneuvering that was at the heart of the impeachment process, but because of the political decision of the overwhelming majority of Congress at the time. More than initially indicated in the alleged wrongdoing, Dilma was removed from office by deputies and senators, deeming her incapable of leading Brazil, which was then plunged into a deep political, social and economic crisis, and for taking a hostile stance towards the legislature.

After several years out of the spotlight, Dilma Rousseff was appointed at the start of Lula da Silva’s third term, which began on January 1, as president of the BRICS Development Bank, a bloc of countries formed by Brazil, Russia, India and the United States. China and South Africa. Since then, Dilma has been based in Shanghai, where the bank is headquartered, and in addition to all paid expenses and other benefits, she receives a base salary of over 23,000 euros per month.