BRASÍLIA: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was left scrambling for votes to save her presidency in a looming impeachment showdown after her main coalition partner walked out of the government Tuesday.

The PMDB, the country’s largest party, voted to immediately end its alliance with Rousseff’s leftist Workers’ Party, or PT, and go into opposition.

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