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LONDON, (APP/AFP): Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on
Thursday condemned the “fascist methods” of opponents seeking her ouster
and said the country’s current political crisis would leave a “scar” if not resolved democratically.
In an interview with several foreign media groups, Rousseff said she
was being pressured to resign because her rivals wanted “to avoid the difficulty of removing — unduly, illegally and criminally — a legitimately elected president from power”.
The leftist leader earlier this week ruled out stepping down despite
mass protests and impeachment proceedings in Congress.
In the interview with The Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde, El Pais and Argentina’s Pagina 12, Rousseff said any attempt to remove her without legal basis would represent a “coup”.
“I am not comparing the coup here to the military coups of the past, but it would be a breaking of the democratic order of Brazil,” she said, in comments reported by the Guardian.
She said any such move would “leave a deep scar on Brazilians’ political life”.