Brazil opposition demands sacking of Congress speaker

Brazil opposition demands sacking of Congress speaker

10 October 2015

Brazil's main opposition parties have made public a demand for the speaker of the lower house of Congress, Eduardo Cunha, to resign.


He is being investigated for alleged corruption in a kick-back scheme at the state run oil company, Petrobras.

A request for his resignation had already come from government supporters in Congress.

Mr Cunha holds the power to allow impeachment proceedings against the Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff.

One of the most powerful members of the PMDB (the Party for the Democratic Movement of Brazil), part of the government coalition and hostile to Dilma Rousseff, Mr Cunha has been under investigation for months for allegedly having benefitted from the Petrobras corruption scheme.

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