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Rousseff vows crisis won't mar Olympics

By Agence France Presse In Brasilia, Brazil | China Daily | Updated: 2016-05-05 07:58

Embattled President Dilma Rousseff greeted the Olympic flame in Brazil on Tuesday, promising not to allow a raging political crisis, which could see her suspended within days, to spoil the Rio Games.

"We are experiencing political instability. We are going through a very difficult period, truly critical in the country's history and in the history of democracy," Rousseff said in the capital Brasilia. "Brazil will provide the very best reception for athletes and foreign visitors because we have created the conditions for this."

The flame, which arrived in a small lantern from the ancient Greek site of Olympia, via Switzerland, was transferred to Brazil's Olympic torch featuring waves of tropical colors.

The torch will now be carried in a relay by 12,000 people through 329 cities, ending in Rio's Maracana stadium on Aug 5 for the opening ceremony.

Air Force jets roared overhead in a clear blue sky to write "Rio 2016" and the five Olympic rings in their vapor trails. Then there were cheers as the first relay runner, double Olympic gold winning women's volleyball captain Fabiana Claudino, set off.

Twelve-year-old Syrian refugee Hanan Daqqah, who arrived in Brazil's biggest city Sao Paulo with her family in 2015, was also among the 10 first torch bearers.

But political and economic turmoil overshadowed the ceremony ahead of South America's first ever Olympics.

Rousseff will be suspended from office for six months next week if the Senate votes on May 11 or 12 to open an impeachment trial, meaning that Tuesday could have been one of her final major public events as president.

According to reports in the Globo, Folha de Sao Paulo and Estadao dailies, chief prosecutor Rodrigo Janot has requested authority to open an investigation into the embattled president and also her predecessor and key political ally Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Officials could not immediately be reached to confirm the reports, published on Tuesday. But if confirmed, the probe into Rousseff would be on top of a separate investigation that Janot earlier on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to open against Lula and three of Rousseff's ministers in relation to corruption at the state oil giant Petrobras.

Rousseff vows crisis won't mar Olympics

(China Daily 05/05/2016 page11)

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