--- description: More than 1 million protesters took to the streets across Brazil on Sunday to protest against President Dilma Rousseff. title: Brazil Protesters Demand President's Impeachment image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9233200efd0cbd9/698783a98e0601a23045ac98/brazil-protests-president.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [brazil](/tag/brazil/) ## brazil Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Tens of Thousands Demand Brazil President Rousseff's Impeachment by [Helen Regan](/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 16, 2015 6:39 AM CUT  Demonstrators hold a Brazilian flag and a sign that reads in Portuguese "Military intervention now!" during a march demanding the impeachment of Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff in Sao Paulo, Brazil,, March 15, 2015. Demonstrators hold a Brazilian flag and a sign that reads in Portuguese "Military intervention now!" during a march demanding the impeachment of Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff in Sao Paulo, Brazil,, March 15, 2015.Andre Penner—AP by [Helen Regan](/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 16, 2015 6:39 AM CUT More than 1 million people took to the [streets](http://news.yahoo.com/nearly-million-demonstrate-against-brazils-president-police-184719456.html "undefined") across Brazil on Sunday to demonstrate against President Dilma Rousseff. Many were calling for her impeachment over a massive corruption scandal while she was head of the state oil company Petrobras, Agence France-Presse reports. Rousseff, 67, also faces anger over rising inflation and a weak economy, especially among lower-income voters who traditionally back her Workers’ Party, locally known as PT. The biggest demonstration was in São Paulo, Brazil’s most populous city, where some 500,000 people took to the streets, dressed in the yellow and green of the national flag. “Get out, Dilma; get out, PT!” they chanted. Rallies took place in 83 other towns and cities across the country, including the capital, Brasilia, where 40,000 people marched toward Congress. Opposition parties backed the protests but didn’t go so far as to call for the President’s impeachment. Petrobras officials allegedly accepted bribes totaling a whopping $3.8 billion in exchange for [contracts](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/world/americas/brazil-bribery-inquiry-targets-top-politicians.html?ref=topics "undefined") for refineries, oil tankers and deep-sea platforms, with payments channeled to powerful politicians and political parties. An investigation into dozens of prominent political figures is under way, but the President, who was chairwoman of the company’s board at the time, has not been directly implicated and denies any involvement. After the protests, the government said it would introduce measures to fight corruption and impunity. \[[_AFP_](http://news.yahoo.com/nearly-million-demonstrate-against-brazils-president-police-184719456.html "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3745520/brazil-protests-president-dilma-rousseff-petrobas-graft-scandal/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3745520/brazil-protests-president-dilma-rousseff-petrobas-graft-scandal/"},"headline":"Watch Tens of Thousands Demand Brazil President Rousseff's Impeachment","datePublished":"2015-03-16T06:39:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T05:10:39.341Z","description":"Protesters say the President knew about a huge graft scandal at the state oil company Petrobras","url":"https://time.com/3745520/brazil-protests-president-dilma-rousseff-petrobas-graft-scandal/","keywords":["brazil","Economy","Dilma Rousseff","corruption","Scandal","protests","President","Investigation","Impeachment"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9233200efd0cbd9/698783a98e0601a23045ac98/brazil-protests-president.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Helen Regan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/helen-regan/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9233200efd0cbd9/698783a98e0601a23045ac98/brazil-protests-president.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Demonstrators hold a Brazilian flag and a sign that reads in Portuguese \"Military intervention now!\" during a march demanding the impeachment of Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff in Sao Paulo, Brazil,, March 15, 2015.","caption":"Demonstrators hold a Brazilian flag and a sign that reads in Portuguese \"Military intervention now!\" during a march demanding the impeachment of Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff in Sao Paulo, Brazil,, March 15, 2015.","creditText":"Andre Penner—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/brazil/","name":"brazil"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3745520/brazil-protests-president-dilma-rousseff-petrobas-graft-scandal/","name":"Watch Tens of Thousands Demand Brazil President Rousseff's Impeachment"}}]}] ```