Brazil's Rousseff gains time to avert impeachment


  • World
  • Wednesday, 14 Oct 2015

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff speaks during a news conference after the bilateral meeting at the Narino Palace in Bogota, Colombia October 9, 2015. REUTERS/John Vizcaino

BRASILIA (Reuters) - A Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday won President Dilma Rousseff more time to muster votes in Congress to block opposition efforts to impeach her on charges of manipulating government accounts.

Opposition parties had planned to force a vote in the lower house that could have opened proceedings to impeach the president as early as this week.

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