數十萬巴西民衆反腐示威

Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets of cities across the country Sunday, demanding the ouster of President Dilma Rousseff over government corruption.

Much of the public anger toward Ms. Rousseff stems from revelations of a kickback scheme at state-run oil company Petrobras, which prosecutors call the biggest corruption scheme ever uncovered in Brazil. At least $800 million was paid in bribes and other funds by the nation's biggest construction and engineering firms in exchange for Petrobras contracts.

Dozens of political figures, including close allies of the president, and former Petrobras executives, are under investigation. No one has been convicted yet, but 22 deputies, 13 senators and two governors have been implicated in the bribe-taking allegations.

Some of the alleged wrongdoing took place while Ms. Rousseff was chairman of the Petrobras board. She is not being investigated.

In addition to the corruption scandal at Petrobras, Ms. Rousseff also is facing rising inflation and a Brazilian economy that is on the brink of recession.

Sunday's gatherings were mostly calm and festive, with little of the violence that tarnished a wave of massive demonstrations in 2013, when Brazilians protested spending to host the 2014 World Cup of soccer.數十萬巴西民衆星期日走上各地城市街頭，要求迪爾瑪•羅塞夫總統因政府腐敗下臺。

民衆對羅塞夫總統的不滿主要是因爲巴西國家石油公司回扣計劃的曝光，檢察官稱這是巴西被揭露出來的最大的腐敗案。巴西最大的建築和工程公司至少耗資8億美元用於賄賂和其他基金，以換取巴西國家石油公司的合同。

幾十名政界人士，其中包括總統的一些親密盟友和巴西國家石油公司的前任高管，都受到調查。目前還沒有人被定罪，但是22名議員、13名參議員以及兩名州長受到涉嫌收受賄賂的指控。

一些賄賂行爲是在羅塞夫總統擔任巴西國家石油公司董事會主席時發生的，但羅塞夫本人並未受到調查。

除此之外，羅塞夫總統還面臨通脹攀升，以及巴西經濟瀕於崩潰的危險。

星期日的集會基本是平靜的，幾乎沒有發生2013年大規模示威中出現的那種暴力，當時巴西人抗議政府撥款主辦1014年世界盃賽事。