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Brazil’s left-wing loses a procedural battle over Bolsonaro’s impeachment

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Justice Cármen Lúcia of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) rejected a petition for an injunction in which federal deputy Rui Falcão (Worker's Party PT) and former São Paulo mayor and 2018 presidential candidate Fernando Haddad (Worker's Party PT) asked the court to force the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Arthur Lira (PP), to analyze an impeachment motion against President Jair Bolsonaro that was submitted to Parliament more than a year ago, on May 21, 2020.

In a decision issued on Monday, 19, and published on Wednesday, 21, Carmen Lucia . . .

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