Ruling Brazilian coalition split could lead to the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff

Brazil’s largest political party is leaving President Dilma Rousseff’s coalition and pulling its members from her government, the party announced Tuesday. The move cripples the embattled president’s chances of surviving in office. The Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, or PMDB, said it decided at a leadership meeting that the six remaining members in Rousseff’s Cabinet must resign…

Abandoned by her her vice-president, Michel Temer, many of her allies and fighting for her political life with calls for impeachment strengthening it looks ever more likely the president of Brazil Dilma Rousseff will not complete her second term. The largest party in the coalition has voted for an immediate exit from government. At its leadership…