nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20160421-230115 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 160421s2016||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20160421-230115 doi eng 342 23 Fraundorfer, Markus Author aut Dilma Rousseff and the Impeachment Process: Questions of Power and Influence Fraundorfer, Markus Verfassungsblog 2016-04-21 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Dilma Rousseff, the President of Brazil, is about to be forced out of office soon. Any impeachment process is, first and foremost, political, dealing with questions of power and influence. To be sure, political reforms such as the introduction of measures to significantly reduce the number of parties in Congress are urgently needed. Unfortunately, there is no immediate remedy to this significant deficiency in sight. And yet, it is clear that any governing coalition to function in Brazil’s political system requires a president extremely skilled in engaging with the legislative, creating deals, forging alliances and making compromises. Dilma Rousseff is facing the end of her political career because she has utterly failed in this respect. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Corruption Impeachment Party Fragmentation Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/dilma-rousseff-and-the-impeachment-process-questions-of-power-and-influence/ raw object