"PRESIDENTIAL INSTABILITY AND ABUSIVE DISMISSAL: an analysis of the Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment trial".
presidential dismissal; abusive dismissal; presidential instability; dependence and political instability.
It studies the phenomenon of political instability in Latin America and its impacts on the social and constitutional order of the region. Identifies criteria to recognize the abusive use of the constitutional tools of presidential impeachment. Reviews the literature on presidentialism in Latin America and on the phenomenon of political instability in the region to understand how presidential declines have occurred Nsince the wave of democratization in the 1980s and to verify whether the literature on the subject has identified the abusive use of presidential dismissal. Through dependency theory and Florestan Fernandes' formulations about the existing State in dependent capitalism, assesses the non-institutional factors for the permanence of political instability after the wave of democratization in Latin America in the 1990s. Identifies the normative beacons of the mechanisms of impeachment to verify the compatibility between them and the use of this institute as a substitute for the ordinary mechanisms of presidential succession. It analyzes the decisions of the Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights on the removal of civil authorities from their positions by a procedure provided for in national legislation and which assess the imposition of a penalty of disqualification for conduct not provided for in criminal legislation, finding, in the documents, the guidance that the decision to apply any penalty must be subject to the principle of legality. It carries out a process tracking of the events that culminated in the deposition of Dilma Rousseff in 2016 in order to find criteria for identifying the abusive use of impeachment. It concludes that the use of impeachment as an alternative to the ordinary processes of presidential succession engenders a veto movement to the government agenda chosen by popular sovereignty.