Yesterday, more than two-thirds of federal deputies in Brazil voted to begin impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff. Raquel Muniz, from the (misnamed) right-wing Social Democratic Party, dedicated her pro-impeachment vote to the “honesty” of her husband.

This morning, the Federal Police arrested her husband for fraud in various hospitals and charities in their home city in the state of Minas Gerais. She, too, faces various fraud charges, but her status as a federal deputy temporarily protects her from criminal proceedings.

That story alone does a good job capturing yesterday’s farce. President Dilma Rousseff from the Workers’ Party (PT) was charged by the lower house of deputies with the “crime of responsibility” for dodgy accounting maneuvers with state accounts.