Discursos gerados para a destituição da presidenta Dilma: golpe ou impeachment?

Abstract

The objective of this research is to analyze the speeches of the media about the coup or impeachment and differences of understanding about the dismissal of President Dilma Rousseff in 2016. To achieve the proposed objective, a qualitative documentary research was done analyzing the editorials of magazines Veja and Carta Capital between September 2015 and February 2017. A total of 144 editorials were analyzed, 72 for each journal. Based on this investigation, it was possible to verify that in the editorials of Veja magazine the accusation speech prevailed to a single political party, the PT and the former presidents Dilma and Lula. Already in the Carta Capital magazine, the speech of defense, reaction and denunciation to the speeches given by the media prevailed. Both the bibliography and the editorials provide evidence that the process of dismissal against the President was, in fact, a parliamentary coup. The arguments brought by the prosecution and defense discourses show that fiscal rallies were used as a pretext to remove a legitimately elected government.