Brasilia, August 28 (Prensa Latina)-- Former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, impeached in a legal manuver by the right-wing opposition in 2016 -- a judicial parliamentary coup -- may have a symbolic return of her mandate, according to Gleisi Hoffmann, head of the Workers' Party (PT).
The political organization intends to present in the National Congress a resolution for that act, Hoffmann revealed to the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo.
The Federal Regional Court of the First Region (TRF-1), based in the Federal District, on August 21 exonerated Rousseff of having committed the so-called fiscal pedaling (irregularities used by the government to improve accounts), which was the basis for her impeachment process (impeachment).
"I conceive that there is room for a draft resolution in that sense based on the TRF-1 decision, which makes it clear that the impeachment was a big farce, that the story of the pedaladas was a trap, literally a coup. Dilma and the history of Brazil deserve that," Hoffmann said.
The congresswoman has as a reference the symbolic return of the mandate of the ruler João Goulart, deposed by the military coup of 1964.
Based on a bill by legislators Pedro Simon and Randolfe Rodrigues, Congress in 2013 annulled the session of April 2, 1964, in which the then helmsman of Parliament, Auro de Moura Andrade, declared the presidency of the Republic vacant.
On the occasion, the former president of Congress, Senator Renan Calheiros, made an apology "for the falsehoods sponsored by the Brazilian State" against a patriot.
During an interview in Luanda, capital of Angola, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva commented that a discussion is required on how to clear Rousseff, who is currently the head of the BRICS bank, an economic group formed by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
"Now I'm going to discuss how we are going to do, you can't repair political rights if she wants to be president again, because I want to finish my term. But you have to know how to repair something that was judged for something that did not happen," said Lula.
We managed to prove that the former president (2011-2016) did not cause any damage to the public coffers, said lawyer Ricardo Lodi Ribeiro at the time.
"This is one more demonstration of the farce of the impeachment, which had no legal basis, having been only a parliamentary action aimed at removing a president elected by the people," he concluded.
