BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s attorney general turned to the Supreme Court yesterday in another bid to prevent a ruling on embattled President Dilma Rousseff’s accounts that could pave the way to an impeachment hearing.
Attorney General Luis Inacio Adams asked for an injunction that would require the Federal Accounts Court, or TCU, to delay a vote, slated for today, on the accounts until it rules on his request to remove the judge overseeing the case.
Adams says Judge Augusto Nardes erred in making his position on the government’s delayed repayments to state-run banks public ahead of the vote. He says it is against the law for a magistrate to make his or her opinion public before a ruling and filed a request to remove Nardes with the TCU on Monday.
Delaying repayments to state-run banks helped Rousseff continue funding social programs while improving the nation’s fiscal accounts in her first term, ahead of her narrow win in last year’s presidential election.
