393:) were arrested for corruption. Besides the former commanders of the state government, a series of former State Deputies, such as former presidents of the Legislative Assembly, Jorge Picciani and Paulo Melo, were also arrested. All of them were part of a group which dominated Rio for about 15 years. This caused a hard financial crisis, as one of the reflexes being the regression of the rating of many municipalities, including the capital, in the FIRJAN Index of Municipal Development (IFDM) of 2018, as well as the federal intervention in public security. All of these circumstances helped decrease trust in the political class - not only in Rio, but also in the federal scope - making this scenario a fertile territory for polarizationa and for
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entrepreneur Mário
Peixoto; rejection of the 2019 budget by the state Court of Accounts. Once approved, the process moves to a special committee, where each one of the 29 parties in the Assembly choose representatives to make an impeachment committee. The report, authorizing the impeachment process, was approved by the special committee on 17 September. If the state assembly passes the request (36 of the 70 deputies must approve), the governor is suspended from his duties (besides his suspension from 28 August-30 April, which was authorized by the
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well as the rejection of the governor accounts of 2019 by the state Court of
Accounts. Once approved, the process moved to a special committee, where each one of the 29 parties in the Assembly delegated representatives to create the impeachment committee. As the request was accepted by the Assembly floor (69 out of 70 deputies voted to accept it), the head of the executive branch was suspended from his duties and a mixed court was formed by:
415:, lots of other accusations of embezzlement of public money had surged involving state secretaries in relation to the fight against the pandemic, and the own governor was target of Operation Placebo, of the Federal Police. With the aggravating of having a weak government support in the Legislative Assembly, representatives criticized the governor for keeping people investigated by the state Public Prosecutor's Office and Police in his staff.
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after a symbolic voting in the virtual floor of the house. State
Deputies LĂşcia Helena and Luiz Paulo Correa filed a petition accusing governor Witzel of the following crimes: acquisition of overpriced respirators; suspect bidding for the construction of temporary hospitals; linking with the arrested
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The impeachment process signed by deputies Luiz Paulo Correa and LĂşcia Helena was unanimously accepted on 10 June 2020 by the
Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro. Among the items covered in the request, it includes the suspect of overpricing and delay in the construction of campaign hospitals, as
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on 28 August) and Witzel's trial began through a mixed court. On 30 April 2021, by a vote of 10-0, Witzel was convicted and removed from office, his political rights suspended for five years, with
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Revoking of disqualification of OS Unir Saúde, which would be connected to Mário
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927:"Alerj decide abrir processo de impeachment contra o governador Wilson Witzel"
792:"TCE-RJ dá parecer contrário à aprovação das contas do governo Witzel em 2019"
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900:"Desconfiança Ă© combustĂvel para teorias da conspiração no perĂodo eleitoral"
764:"RJ: Alvo da Lava Jato, gestora de hospitais de campanha recebeu R$ 256 mi"
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634:"Presidente da Alerj abre impeachment contra Witzel após votação simbólica"
581:"STJ afasta Wilson Witzel do governo do RJ e manda prender Pastor Everaldo"
820:"Em 20 anos, quatro governadores eleitos do RJ foram presos por corrupção"
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Construction of campaign hospitals, which bidding is under investigation;
611:"Alerj abre processo de impeachment contra governador Wilson Witzel"
737:"Operação Placebo aprofunda investigações sobre corrupção na saúde"
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Governor; Witzel has political rights suspended for 5 years
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185:Vote to proceed with impeachment process
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655:SabĂłia, Gabriel (17 September 2020).
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419:Process in the Legislative Assembly
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716:(in Portuguese). 30 October 2019
632:SabĂłia, Gabriel (10 June 2020).
139:Vote to open impeachment process
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223:Approved; sent to Mixed Court
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