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Brazil: Report deals ‘fatal’ blow to effort to oust Rousseff

AUDITORS for Brazil’s senate cleared President Dilma Rousseff on Monday of personal responsibility in the key charges brought to impeach her.

The sensational auditors’ report said the Workers’ Party (PT) leader did not, as alleged, delay payments to state-run banks in breach of fiscal laws.

Ms Rousseff’s lawyer Eduardo Cardoza called the report “fatal” to the impeachment.

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