Brasilia: The lower house of Brazil's Congress voted on Tuesday to appoint a committee stacked with opponents of President Dilma Rousseff to study whether to impeach her for breaking budget rules, in a blow to the leftist leader battling for political survival. By secret ballot, MPs voted 272-199 for a list of committee members drawn up by the opposition and pro-impeachment members of the centrist Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), the biggest party in Ms Rousseff's governing coalition. It was a clear defeat for Ms Rousseff in the first battle of an impeachment process started last week, which threatens to...
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