If impeachment bid fails President Rousseff offers opponents an early Brazilian election immediately after

Brazil’s suspended President Dilma Rousseff reads a letter to the country in Alvorada Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, August 16, 2016. [Photo/Agencies] BRASILIA — Brazil’s suspended President Dilma Rousseff said on Tuesday that she would hold a public vote on calling an early presidential election if she would be returned to the presidency. She made the proposal…

Suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff appeals to the people to avoid impeachment

Brazil’s suspended President Dilma Rousseff has promised to call a referendum on early elections in a last-ditch effort to avoid impeachment. The Senate is due to hold a vote on August 25 on whether to remove Rousseff from office on charges that she doctored fiscal accounts to get re-elected in 2014. In a public letter to…